Proceedings
Each of the fifteen proceedings told from start to finish: who asked for what, what the rapporteur decided, in what order, with the documentary trail filing by filing.
Public record of Brazil's Supreme Court · Pet 15.556 and related proceedings · Operation Compliance Zero
The Banco Master case, made navigable.
On 11 September 2026 Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) made 189,000 pages of case records public. This site organises that volume by proceeding, by profile and by date, with every piece of information pointing back to the filing and page it comes from. New to Brazil? Start with the primer and the profiles.
Profiles
Who appears in the record and in what capacity: under investigation, official, lawyer, a bank that only received a court order, or merely named. A biography drawn from the filings, scope by proceeding, the court acts where the name appears, where to check.
Rulings in full
The complete text of each decision-making act: rulings, orders and panel decisions, by proceeding and date, with personal data masked. An interim ruling is a provisional judgment; none is a verdict.
Timeline
The dates the record cites, month by month, by proceeding. A peak is a period the filings talk about a lot, not necessarily when something happened.
Chronicles and primer
Short pieces for those who would rather read than filter: the record told with humour and no verdicts, every fact pointing to its source page. Every chronicle has a full English edition. Plus a plain-English guide to how Brazil's courts, prosecutors, police and regulators work.
Source always in view
Every profile lists the filings the name appears in: proceeding, sequence number and page. Nothing here replaces the record; everything points to it.
Version 0.7. Name extraction and counts are automatic and under review; capacity in the record, biographies and scope are curated from the rulings. Sanitized: no taxpayer numbers, addresses, full text or names of incidental people, victims and witnesses. Full policy. This English edition is a translation of the Portuguese site.
Profiles
Who appears in the record and in what capacity: under investigation or subject to a measure, official, merely named, an institution that only received a court order, lawyer. Each profile says who the person or company is according to the filings, what each ruling says about them, in how many court acts the name appears and where to check. Nobody here has been charged in the public record; appearing on a list is not a conclusion about anything. New to Brazil? Read the primer first.
Brazil primer: the court, the cops, the regulators and the jargon
What a reader outside Brazil needs in order to follow this record. General background on how Brazilian institutions work; where the text refers to this case, it says only what the case file itself says. Portuguese terms are kept in italics because they recur on every page of the record.
1. Why a bank case sits at the Supreme Court
Brazil's Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF, Supreme Federal Court) is both the constitutional court and the trial court for a short list of officials who hold what Brazilians call foro por prerrogativa de função, a privileged venue: sitting members of Congress, cabinet ministers and a few others can only be investigated and tried by the STF. When such a person surfaces in an investigation, the whole case, or the part touching that person, moves up to the Court. The Court can also pull a case up through a reclamação (RCL), a constitutional complaint asserting that a lower court is trespassing on the STF's jurisdiction. Both mechanisms appear in this record.
The Court has eleven justices, called ministros in Portuguese, appointed by the President with Senate approval and serving until the age of 75. It sits as a full bench (Plenário) or as two panels of five, the Primeira and Segunda Turma. Every case is assigned by lot to one justice, the relator, translated here as reporting justice. The relator runs the case day to day and can decide urgent measures alone, in a single-justice ruling (decisão monocrática). Such rulings are then put to the panel, which either confirms or overturns them; the record calls that confirmation a referendo. A change of relator by redistribution happened in this case, and both panels' names appear in the filings.
2. The three kinds of proceeding in this record
- INQ, inquérito
- A criminal investigation supervised by the Court. The Federal Police investigates; the reporting justice authorises intrusive measures; the Prosecutor General decides whether to indict. An inquiry is not a charge: nobody in an INQ has been accused of anything by a prosecutor yet.
- PET, petição
- An ancillary or precautionary proceeding. In the STF's practice, requests for searches, detentions, asset freezes and similar measures are docketed as separate petitions attached to an inquiry. That is why the "main" proceeding here, Pet 15.556, is technically a petition and not the inquiry itself. Pet 15.198 is the docket where the second phase of the operation was requested and decided.
- RCL, reclamação
- A constitutional complaint. Used here to bring a São Paulo investigation up to the STF on the argument that it touched the Court's exclusive jurisdiction.
Brazilian docket numbers use a dot as a thousands separator: "Pet 15.556" is petition number fifteen thousand five hundred and fifty-six. This site writes the same number as "PET 15556". Inside each proceeding, every docket entry carries a sequence number, seq, which is also the beginning of the file name in the STF's public package; the "Where to check" tables on this site cite proceeding, seq and page.
3. Who does what
- Polícia Federal (PF), the Federal Police
- Investigates federal crimes, including crimes against the financial system and money laundering. Under Brazilian procedure the police cannot search, detain or freeze assets on their own authority outside a crime in progress: they file a representação, an application, and a judge decides. A delegado is a police chief with a law degree who signs those applications. "Operação Compliance Zero" is the PF's name for this investigation.
- Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR), the Prosecutor General's Office
- The head of the federal prosecution service, the Ministério Público Federal. Before the STF, only the PGR can bring charges. Before deciding a police request, the reporting justice normally gives the PGR vista, a referral for an opinion within a deadline. A PGR manifestação is that opinion; a denúncia would be an indictment, which is a later stage than anything summarised on this site.
- The defence
- Lawyers are identified in the record by their bar registration (OAB). They file petições asking, for instance, for the return of seized property or the revocation of detention. Their filings are part of the archive, but the precautionary rulings summarised here were, as a rule, issued before the defence was heard.
- Banco Central do Brasil (BCB), the Central Bank
- Licenses and supervises banks. Its bank-supervision department appears in the record under the acronym Desup. When a bank is judged unrecoverable, the Central Bank can order its liquidação extrajudicial, an extrajudicial liquidation: the bank is closed and wound up by a liquidator appointed by the Central Bank, outside the courts. Two other units of the Central Bank appear in Pet 15.504: its legal department, the Procuradoria-Geral do Banco Central (PGBC), an in-house counsel's office that is not a prosecution service; and its internal-affairs office, the Corregedoria-Geral (Coger), which opens disciplinary inquiries into the Central Bank's own staff, including the sindicância patrimonial, an asset inquiry into whether a civil servant's wealth matches their income. A termo de comparecimento and an ofício are the supervisor's two written instruments for telling a bank to fix something; the first summons the bank's controller to commit to a plan, the second is a letter.
- Fundo Garantidor de Créditos (FGC)
- The private deposit-guarantee fund financed by the banks themselves. It repays depositors and holders of bank deposit certificates up to a per-person, per-institution ceiling when a bank is liquidated. Because of it, high-yield bank paper sold to retail investors through brokerage platforms carries an implicit safety net, which is part of the background the record describes.
- Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM)
- The securities regulator, Brazil's counterpart to the SEC. Supervises investment funds, asset managers and public companies.
- Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU)
- The federal government's internal-control and anti-corruption agency. Among other things it runs disciplinary proceedings against federal civil servants, which is the capacity in which it appears here.
- Tribunais Regionais Federais (TRF)
- The federal appellate courts. TRF1 sits in Brasília and covers the Federal District and much of the centre and north; TRF3 sits in São Paulo. A Vara Criminal Federal is a first-instance federal criminal court; the record includes a copy of a criminal action from the 6th Federal Criminal Court of São Paulo.
- CPMI, Comissão Parlamentar Mista de Inquérito
- A joint congressional inquiry committee, with power to summon witnesses. When a person under investigation is summoned, the Court may issue a salvo-conduto, a safe-conduct order guaranteeing that the person may remain silent and will not be arrested for doing so.
4. The measures a judge can order before any trial
- Busca e apreensão, search and seizure
- A warrant to search premises and seize documents, devices, cash and vehicles. Seized property is inventoried and can be released back on request (restituição de coisas apreendidas).
- Prisão temporária, temporary detention
- A fixed-term detention, requested by the police during an investigation, to secure evidence or prevent flight. It expires on its own unless extended.
- Prisão preventiva, pre-trial detention
- Open-ended detention that the judge must justify under article 312 of the Code of Criminal Procedure: evidence that a crime occurred and indications of authorship (fumus commissi delicti), plus a concrete danger created by the person's liberty (periculum libertatis), for one of the purposes the article lists: protecting public order or economic order, the convenience of the investigation (conveniência da instrução criminal), or ensuring that the criminal law can be enforced. The judge must also explain why less severe alternatives would not do. The ruling summarised in the Pet 15.556 chronicles works through exactly those steps.
- Medidas cautelares diversas, alternatives to detention
- Electronic ankle monitor (tornozeleira eletrônica), surrender of passport, ban on contact with other persons under investigation, suspension from a job or from company management.
- Sequestro, bloqueio, asset freeze
- Freezing of bank accounts, funds or property up to an amount the judge sets, so that they are available for eventual forfeiture or compensation.
- Cognição sumária, summary assessment
- The standard for all of the above: the judge decides on the probability of the allegations, on the file as it stands and usually without hearing the defence. It is not a finding of guilt, and Brazil's Constitution (article 5, LVII) presumes innocence until a conviction becomes final.
- Sigilo, sealing
- Investigations run under seal. The seal can be lifted in whole or in part by the reporting justice; that is what happened on 10 September 2026, and the resulting public package is the sole source of this site. Even after unsealing, the STF's case headers still read "under seal", so this site rebuilt the list of parties from the body of the filings.
5. The financial instruments that keep coming up
- CDB, Certificado de Depósito Bancário
- A bank-issued time deposit, the basic retail funding instrument of a Brazilian bank, covered by the FGC guarantee and widely sold through investment platforms.
- FIDC, Fundo de Investimento em Direitos Creditórios
- A receivables fund: a vehicle that buys loans, invoices or other credit rights. Its shares are called quotas; a fund with a cotista único has a single quotaholder, which is the kind of structure the police filings describe at length.
- FIP, Fundo de Investimento em Participações
- A private-equity fund that holds stakes in companies.
- DTVM, Distribuidora de Títulos e Valores Mobiliários
- A securities distributor, a kind of broker-dealer licensed by the Central Bank and the CVM. A DTVM often acts as the administrator of investment funds, the entity legally responsible for the fund, while a separate gestora (asset manager) makes the investment decisions.
- CNPJ and CPF
- The company registry number and the individual taxpayer number. Every Brazilian company and every person has one; the record is full of them. This site publishes company numbers and never publishes individual ones.
- Money
- Amounts are in Brazilian reais (R$). Over 2025 and 2026 one US dollar bought roughly five to six reais; check the rate of the day before converting a figure. Brazilian usage writes R$ 1.000.000,00 for one million.
6. How to read a Brazilian court filing
- Parties and companies are written in CAPITAL LETTERS; that convention is what this site's name extraction relies on.
- A single-justice ruling opens with a summary of the request (relatório), then the reasoning (fundamentação), then the operative part (dispositivo). The chronicles on Pet 15.556 follow that anatomy.
- Dates are day/month/year. "3.3.2026" is 3 March 2026.
- "Ministro" before a name means a Supreme Court justice, not a member of the cabinet. "Desembargador" is an appellate judge; "juiz" a first-instance judge; "delegado" a police chief. "Procurador" needs care: a procurador da República is a federal prosecutor, but the Procurador-Geral do Banco Central is the Central Bank's general counsel, a government lawyer, not a prosecutor.
- Nothing in the record summarised here is a conviction. Every allegation belongs to whoever made it, and this site keeps that attribution: "the PF states", "the PGR argues", "the ruling says".
Fifteen proceedings, one investigation
The case is not a single proceeding. It is police inquiries (INQ), petitions (PET) and one constitutional complaint (RCL), all before the same rapporteur at Brazil's Supreme Court, citing one another constantly. Each began for a reason, decided something, and left a paper trail. Below, in the order they reached the court, what each one is and what happened inside it.
Who cites whom
Each cell is the number of filings in the row's proceeding that cite the column's proceeding. Darker means more citations. Hover for the value.
Timeline
Dates cited in the narrative filings (petitions, rulings, police reports), by month. A peak is a period the record talks about a lot, not necessarily when something happened.
Drag across the months to select a period.
Hover over a month.
Compare names
Dates cited on the pages where each name appears, month by month. Each row has its own scale; compare the shape, not the height.
Chronicles · reading, not filtering
The case told to those who will not read 189,000 pages
Opinion pieces by the project's author, written on the same public data as the site. Light in tone, checkable in fact: every number points to the archive and every name to a profile. They are not news, not an expert report, and they assert nobody's guilt. Every chronicle is available in full in English. The English editions are translations of the Portuguese originals, which remain the reference text.
Subscribe via the RSS feed (feed in Portuguese; every chronicle opens here in English). Factual errors: open an issue in the repository; the rule is to fix fast and leave a record.
Rulings in full
The complete text of the decision-making acts in the public record: single-justice rulings, orders and panel decisions, by proceeding and date. Only what the court signed is here; police reports, opinions, defence filings and exhibits stay out. Personal data of victims, witnesses and relatives is replaced by bracketed labels. An interim ruling is a provisional judgment, made before the defence is heard: it is not a verdict.
Search the site
Searches the ruling passages, the chronicles, the character pages, the proceeding summaries and the dossier chapters at once. It runs in your browser: nothing you type leaves this page. The full text of the case file is not published here and therefore cannot be searched; for that, the route is the Supreme Court's own package.
How this was made
Source
The STF published the case records on 11 September 2026 (press note, in Portuguese). The package holds 4,258 PDFs and 49 videos. Only the text was used. Neither the package nor the documents are on this site.
Pipeline
- Manifest and text. SHA-256 hash and metadata for every file; page-by-page text extraction. Pages without a text layer (1.8%) went through Portuguese OCR.
- Structured extraction. Regular expressions for case numbers, corporate tax IDs (CNPJ), dates, references to other proceedings and names in capital letters, which is how Brazilian legal filings write the parties.
- Roles. Company (corporate suffix or term), official (public office in context, or a signature on every page of a long filing), lawyer (sender of the e-filing receipt, or a bar registration next to the name), person (everyone else). A manual curation layer corrects roles, merges spelling variants and discards fragments that are not names.
- Co-occurrence. Two names are listed together when they appear on the same page of a narrative filing. Exhibits such as bank statements, tables, powers of attorney and identity documents are left out, because they mass-produce spurious relations. The weight is the number of distinct filings in common.
- Sanitization. See the policy (Portuguese). In short: public entities and people named in judicial acts appear by name; incidental people become pseudonyms; personal data stays out.
Limits, plainly
- Co-occurrence on the same page is not a proven relationship. It is an invitation to read the filing.
- Namesakes exist and may have been merged. Spelling variants of the same name were merged by a simple rule and by curation.
- OCR makes mistakes; truncated names or swapped letters may appear.
- Monetary amounts were not published: automatic extraction from bank statements is unreliable.
How to check
Every citation gives the proceeding, the filing's sequence number and the page. Download the STF package from the link in the press note, open the proceeding's folder and the file whose name begins with that sequence number.
Verbatim passages
Each proceeding page carries verbatim passages from the court's own acts, kept in the original Portuguese. None is typed by hand: the curation file points to a proceeding, a filing, a page and an anchor phrase, and the pipeline cuts the text straight from the document, failing if the anchor is not there. We quote only filings signed by an authority, meaning rulings, orders, panel decisions and opinions of the Prosecutor General. Federal Police filings, defence petitions and investigative annexes are left out: that is where private messages and third-party data live.
Rulings in full
Since September 2026 the site publishes the complete text of 200 decision-making acts: single-justice rulings, orders and panel decisions, 1,153 pages in all, listed in the Rulings section and opened from the proceeding pages. Judgment certificates and opinions of the Prosecutor General's Office, published in the first version, were removed on 17 September 2026: they are not acts of the court. What differs from the original are the labels in square brackets: tax and ID numbers, addresses, postcodes, phone numbers, e-mails, bank account details and bar registration numbers are removed by automatic rule; names of victims, witnesses and family members are removed by curation, replaced by the role the person plays in the text. The build fails if any of those patterns survives. Police filings, defence petitions and investigative annexes remain out.
Profiles: capacity in the record
Since 18 September 2026 every profile says in what capacity the name appears: under investigation or subject to a measure, official, lawyer, institution served with a court order, or merely named. That classification is not automatic: it is curation written from the court's own acts, with proceeding, filing and page, kept in pipeline/personagens.py together with the biography and the scope by proceeding, in Portuguese and in English. Whatever the curation does not cover is shown as “capacity not established”. The profile also counts, for each proceeding, in how many published court acts the name appears, with a link to the first page: that is the datum separating those who are in the rulings from those who are only in petitions and exhibits. Banks and other institutions that merely received court orders sit in a section of their own, without the “shares pages with” list, because having a person under investigation as a customer is not being under investigation. Victims, witnesses and family members protected in the full-text rulings are pseudonymised in the database as well and never get a profile.
Search
Site search covers only what is published: the ruling passages, the chronicles, the character pages and the summaries. Your browser receives an inverted index, which records which words appear in each document rather than the text itself, and ranks results locally, with no server and no record of what you typed. The full text of the case file is not here and cannot be searched from this site. Searching the whole archive means downloading the Supreme Court's package.
Chronicles
The Chronicles section is editorial: opinion pieces by the project's author, written on top of the same public, sanitized data. They live in docs/posts/, in Markdown, with date and sources; the English edition of each one lives in docs/posts/en/. The database (profiles, proceedings, rulings) does not depend on them and does not change because of them. When a chronicle cites a number, the number comes from docs/data/; when it cites a filing, it gives proceeding, seq and page.
English edition
This page is generated from the Portuguese original by pipeline/build_en.py, which translates the interface and the static text by exact-string substitution and fails when the original changes without a matching translation. The who's who and the primer are written in English only and draw solely on facts stated in the public record and summarised in the chronicles. Every chronicle is translated in full, paragraph by paragraph, from the Portuguese original, which remains the reference text. Legal terms are rendered in standard English with the Portuguese term alongside where the English is only an approximation.
Licences and code
Code MIT, derived data CC BY 4.0. Repository: github.com/LLA-master/autos-abertos. A personal project, with no affiliation to the STF or to any party in the proceedings.