Brazil: PF Messages Show TV Star Luciano Huck Was Friend and Adviser of Jailed Banker Vorcaro

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While Daniel Vorcaro was allegedly spying on Globo journalists and plotting violence against one of them, he was also dining with the broadcaster’s biggest star — and sponsoring his Sunday show.

From First Contact to Arrest Night

The first message in the Federal Police material dates from 5 November 2023. “Good to meet you in person today. We owe each other a talk. Big hug,” Huck wrote to the banker. “Hey, friend. So good to see you. Today was great,” Vorcaro replied. Over the following two years, according to the exchanges published by VEJA on Tuesday, the two men built a relationship of friendship, dinners in Brazil and abroad, commercial partnerships and a continuous exchange of personal favours.

The last message came at 9.47pm on 17 November 2025 — minutes before Federal Police arrested Vorcaro at Guarulhos airport as he tried to leave the country. Earlier that day, knowing an arrest order existed, the banker had announced a supposed sale of Banco Master to a consortium of investors from the United Arab Emirates. “Saw the good news about the purchase of Master on JN just now. Very good. Congrats. You deserve to come out of all this turbulence intact,” Huck wrote. There is no reply in the recovered material.

The Business: Will Bank, Domingão and a Shared Jet

At the centre of the partnership was money. Talks began in April 2024, and by December that year Vorcaro’s digital bank Will Bank had signed on as sponsor of Domingão com Huck, Globo’s flagship Sunday programme. In the messages, Huck details that the media deals generated R$83 million (about US$16 million) for the broadcaster — and R$26 million (about US$5 million) for himself under a “personal contract”. Along the way, the host advised the banker to be transparent in his negotiations with Globo, “including compliance”, so the deal would get done.

The two also discussed becoming partners in an aircraft. “I’m looking for a partner for the G550. If it interests you, let’s talk,” Huck wrote in February 2024, referring to a Gulfstream jet. Vorcaro answered: “Let’s talk.” The plane loans flowed in both directions: Vorcaro supplied the aircraft that took Huck to Canoas during the catastrophic Rio Grande do Sul floods of 2024, and the one that flew him to Warsaw to interview Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Huck proposed repaying the favours with flight hours on the jointly owned G550.

Favours, Advice and the “Alto Escalão”

The exchanges show Huck deploying his contact book for the banker: VIP treatment, tours and restaurant reservations in Orlando for Vorcaro’s family trip to Disney, and introductions to select names inside Globo. The host also counselled Vorcaro on his public image. “I keep insisting you have to take charge of the narrative of your own story and brand on social media and in the press. Otherwise others will do it for you — and that is not good,” Huck told him. In December 2024 he wrote: “Today I tested your name once more in the highest circles. When you can, give me a shout and we’ll talk.”

There was a sporting dimension too. Huck invited Vorcaro to a pizza night at his Rio home with Ronaldo Nazário, “we need to start building this CBF candidacy”, part of the former striker’s frustrated bid to run the Brazilian football confederation. Vorcaro did not respond to that invitation. As Banco Master’s schemes began to collapse through 2025, the host’s messages turned to moral support: “Just to reinforce it — I’m with you on any front,” he wrote.

No Illegality — But an Awkward Light

VEJA’s report is explicit on one point: there are no illegalities in the messages. What they document is how the owner of the biggest financial fraud in Brazilian history cultivated allies inside the country’s most powerful broadcaster — at the same time as, according to the Federal Police, he was spying on Globo journalist Malu Gaspar and plotting violence against columnist Lauro Jardim, both of whom were revealing his schemes. Huck is not accused of any crime, and the conversations never touch Vorcaro’s campaigns against the journalists.

The revelation lands in a charged week. Brazilians vote on Sunday in the first round of the presidential election; the Supreme Court has frozen all Banco Master cases until after the vote; and Vorcaro himself cast a prison ballot in Brasília on Sunday. Huck, the host of Domingão for five years, has been floated for years as a potential presidential contender — a speculation his name recognition has kept alive even without a candidacy this cycle. VEJA asked the presenter for comment on the messages and had received no response by publication time.

What We Could Not Confirm

Luciano Huck has not yet commented publicly on the messages, and Globo has not said whether it intends to review the Will Bank sponsorship or Huck’s “personal contract”. The full terms of the G550 aircraft partnership, including whether it was ever formalised, are not in the published excerpts. It is also unclear whether the Federal Police material contains further exchanges between Vorcaro and other media figures that have yet to be published, and whether Huck’s messages form part of any active investigative file beyond the press reporting.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What do the PF messages reveal about Luciano Huck and Daniel Vorcaro?

Messages recovered by the Federal Police from Vorcaro’s phone and published by VEJA on 30 September 2026 show a two-year friendship and business partnership between the TV Globo host and the jailed Banco Master owner, from November 2023 until minutes before Vorcaro’s arrest on 17 November 2025.

How much was the business between Huck and Vorcaro worth?

According to Huck’s own messages, the media partnership around Will Bank’s sponsorship of Domingão com Huck generated R$83 million (about US$16 million) for Globo and R$26 million (about US$5 million) for the presenter under a “personal contract”. The two men also discussed shared ownership of a Gulfstream G550 jet.

Is Luciano Huck accused of any crime?

No. VEJA states explicitly that there is no illegality in the messages, and Huck is not a suspect in any Banco Master investigation. The exchanges document friendship, sponsorship deals and personal favours — not participation in the bank’s fraud schemes.

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What could not be confirmed about Luciano Huck Vorcaro Messages?

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Luciano Huck has not yet commented publicly on the messages, and Globo has not said whether it intends to review the Will Bank sponsorship or Huck's "personal contract". The full terms of the G550 aircraft partnership, including whether it was ever formalised, are not in the published excerpts.

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