Metrópoles, que moeu todos ligados ao caso Master, recebeu R$ 27 milhões de Daniel Vorcaro

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The Metropolis portal, which relentlessly attacked anyone linked to the Master Bank case, received 27 million reais from banker Daniel Vorcaro.

1. Jornal da Fórum's April 9, 2026 broadcast opens with an extended technical failure — two simultaneous live streams ran for seven minutes before the hosts realised no one was watching — before the main story begins. 2. The hosts are identified as Henrique (lead presenter) and Miguel do Rosário (co-host), reporting from what they describe as a chaotic technical situation. 3. The episode's central thesis is that Metrópoles's receipt of R$27.2 million from Daniel Vorcaro exposes the selective and politically motivated nature of its coverage of the Banco Master scandal. 4. Metrópoles, owned by former senator Luiz Estevão, received the money via a contract with the Brazilian football Series D championship — framed as a business arrangement rather than direct payment. 5. Luiz Estevão was convicted in the overpricing scandal for the TRT São Paulo headquarters (the Nicolau dos Santos Neto 'Judge Lalau' case) and served time before being freed following a ruling by Justice Dias Toffoli after 16 years of litigation. 6. The hosts characterise Metrópoles as having adopted an editorial posture 'smelling like Veja magazine at the time of Lava Jato' — aggressively anti-PT, attacking anyone linked to the government, and increasingly aligned with Bolsonarism. 7. Eduardo Bolsonaro is cited as giving his interviews exclusively to Metrópoles during his period in isolation, and Metrópoles is described as becoming a de facto Bolsonarist mouthpiece. 8. An unnamed Metrópoles contributor — addressed ironically as 'the lighthouse of Alexandria,' 'the totem of Brazilian journalism,' and 'the moral compass of the Brazilian press' — went silent on social media immediately after the Vorcaro revelation became public. 9. The hosts note that Metrópoles's homepage removed all Vorcaro references within hours of the story breaking, a move they call 'very funny.' 10. Henrique compares Vorcaro's methods to Jeffrey Epstein: parties, models flown first class from multiple countries, an outsized consultant network — while noting the models were adults, distinguishing the cases. 11. Vorcaro's method is described as 'throwing money from a helicopter': an estimated 2,500 consultants paid across politics, law, media, and finance, including ACM Neto and Ciro Nogueira who received consulting fees. 12. The hosts argue the media got captured by the lobby story and abandoned the original, larger fraud: Banco Master's assets were fictitious, BRB paid billions for a worthless portfolio, and R$52 billion from the FGC — described as 'our money' — has been lost. 13. Vorcaro's brother-in-law Zetel is identified as the financial operator who directed contributions to Bolsonarist campaigns — Flávio Van Ragen, Ciro Nogueira — not to Lula's 2022 campaign. 14. Globo's 'PowerPoint' — a visualisation of Vorcaro's 5,000-person network — is criticised as deliberate misdirection: government-adjacent figures were placed prominently while Bolsonarist recipients like Ciro Nogueira were marginalised. 15. The hosts say the Federal Police director André went to a London law enforcement event where Banco Master was one of several sponsors — and argue this is categorically different from Metrópoles receiving R$27 million into Luiz Estevão's personal account. 16. Guido Mantega — a former Finance Minister not in government for 11 years — is defended as having the right to provide consulting services to private clients, and his Metrópoles-published case is contrasted with Luiz Estevão's as a public media owner. 17. The hosts raise the question of media regulation and transparency: a portal receiving R$27 million from a figure later revealed as a fraudster raises legitimate democracy concerns about information manipulation. 18. The tone is combative, ironic, and often comedic — the hosts read superchats live, mock public figures by name, and respond to what they describe as an 'out of control' Metrópoles figure threatening lawsuits on social media. 19. Listeners who follow Brazilian political media, the Banco Master scandal, or the intersection of journalism and financial crime in Brazil will find the episode directly relevant. 20. Listeners seeking neutral analysis or unfamiliar with the cast of Brazilian political and media figures will struggle to follow the dense web of names and allegations.

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