Among the names that began to worry the Palácio do Planalto in the investigations into the frauds of Banco Master and the INSS loans, one stands out for directly linking the scandal to the PT: that of businessman Augusto "Guga" Lima, former partner of the bank's former controller, Daniel Vorcaro. Both — Lima and Vorcaro — were targets of a preventive arrest warrant in the scope of Operation Compliance Zero, launched in November by the Federal Police (PF) to investigate alleged financial frauds related to Master. Released after the revocation of the arrest by the 1st Region Federal Regional Court (TRF-1), they remain under electronic monitoring and are expected to testify to the PF between January 26 and 28. Lima, who became a partner of Master in 2020, emerges as a key figure in the consigned credit policy created and maintained by PT governments in Bahia: CredCesta, which in recent years has become one of the gears that supported the expansion of Banco Master. The program derives from Cesta do Povo, a state-owned supply company that, since the 1970s, operated as a social policy of the Bahia government, running public supermarkets aimed at selling food at subsidized prices.
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