Brazilian police say lawyer paid R$9,000 to remove reports linking him to senator Flávio Bolsonaro

Federal Police documents in Brazil say lawyer Willer Tomaz paid to have a dozen online reports taken down or deindexed, including stories that linked him to senator Flávio Bolsonaro. For high-risk operators, the detail that matters is not the family drama; it is the mechanics of reputation management, search deindexing, and the cost of getting content out of Google’s results.

1. According to an investigation report obtained by GLOBO, the Federal Police found messages on Willer Tomaz’s phone from a service offering removal of negative content. The contact number was tied to Seu Nome Novo de Novo, a company that says it will “protect digital reputation.”
2. The report says a spreadsheet found in the seized material listed twelve links with news items about Tomaz, with notes indicating they had been removed by the company. The police wrote that “the elements analyzed also indicate that the investigated person contracted and paid a third party with the purpose of promoting the removal or deindexing of these contents from Google search results.”
3. One of the listed stories was titled: “Briga por mansão milionária envolve advogado Willer Thomas, amigo de Weverton e filho de Bolsonaro.” Another said: “Flávio Bolsonaro é contra PL dos Jogos, mas frequenta cassinos e se reúne com operadoras em Las Vegas.” The newsroom says it tried to open the reports and could no longer access them.
4. The messages, sent in October 2025, quoted a price of R$1,000 per removal, or R$12,000 in total. The sender then said a previous charge of R$3,000 for a single link had already been made, but the link had reappeared, so the final bill would be R$9,000.
5. Tomaz, through his legal team, said the matter refers to “a judicial action against Google to deindex old and outdated content.” He also said he “never sought to detach his image from that of Flávio Bolsonaro,” while the senator declined to comment. Both men are being investigated in a Supreme Federal Court probe over alleged money laundering, with Justice Alexandre de Moraes as rapporteur.

For PSPs, acquirers, and banks that work in high-risk verticals, the useful part is simple: the paper trail matters. Search deindexing, content removal, and reputation-cleanup services are part of the same ecosystem that surrounds gambling, betting, and other sensitive businesses, and investigators are treating those payments as evidence, not background noise.