And Arbitration-Related Conflict Court of São Paulo ordered a search and seizure to make a copy and backup of the e-mails exchanged over the last ten years between all those who were directors and members of the board of directors and the audit committee and employees from the retailer's accounting and finance areas. The court appointed the consultancy firm Ernst & Young to monitor the investigation and, subsequently, lead the production of expert accounting evidence. For the investigative expertise, he appointed compliance lawyer Patrícia Punder. The action was filed by Bradesco bank to collect data from Americanas, such as reports, documents and emails, and prevent the destruction or concealment of evidence.
The objective is to understand how the accounting loss occurred and, from there, assess who should be held responsible. If it is demonstrated that there was fraud, financial institutions may request that Americanas' legal pers Special Phone Number Data onality be disregarded and the company's trio of billionaire shareholders — Jorge Paulo Lemann, Beto Sicupira and Marcel Telles — be held accountable. After the discovery of "accounting inconsistencies" worth R$20 billion, Americanas had judicial recovery authorized by the Rio de Janeiro Court. The retailer's debt is around R$48 billion.
Of this total, R$4.7 billion is owed to Bradesco.ccepted by the civil court , there is no justification for maintaining the criminal proceedings, as, whatever the outcome of the annulment action , the punishability of the crimes will be extinguished, either by deconstitution of the tax credit, or by full payment of the tax debt, which will be guaranteed in court. reproduction Administrators were accused of suppressing amounts owed as PIS/Cofins Reproduction With this understanding, judge Ali Mazloum, from the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region (TRF-3), accepted Habeas Corpus filed by a businessman in the oil derivatives sector and granted an injunction to suspend the criminal action in which he and a partner are accused of tax evasion . Administrator of a petroleum derivatives distributor, the businessman was accused by the Federal Public Ministry of committing a crime against the tax system by reducing and suppressing, through omissions and false declarations, the amounts owed as PIS and Cofins .