Brazilian police have arrested this Tuesday an former official of the Superior Court of Justice (TSJ), who is accused of having supplied confidential information to the lawyer Willer Tomaz in the framework of a alleged money laundering scheme in which the former presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro is also listed as a suspect.
The detainee is Humberto Fontoura Pradera, an employee of the highest judicial body, whose capture has been ordered by the Federal Supreme Court within a case that attributes to him the possible crimes of disclosure of official secrets, electronic embezzlement, active and passive corruption, and money laundering.
On October 16 of last year, he was dismissed from his position as Secretary of Information and Communication Technologies of the TSJ, after being subjected to an internal investigation for the suspicions weighing on his management, according to the newspaper "O Globo".
According to the Police, Willer Tomaz would have obtained data about various ongoing cases at the TSJ, including early access to draft rulings of the court, to opinions of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, and even to the meaning of rulings before they were made public, in order to adjust his legal strategy.
Tomaz is under investigation for a supposed money-laundering scheme that he would have put together together with the former presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, who has been in the United States for two weeks despite having his passports canceled precisely due to the investigations opened against him.
In the case file, records are included of parties, meetings, and encounters between Tomaz and Bolsonaro, payment for trips for the parliamentarian, and a link to a bank account of the company Alcazar Holding, in which the latter appeared as a "master user".
According to the Brazilian Police, one of the lawyer’s bank accounts moved around 130 million reais (22.9 million euros) only between March and May 2025.