Dolly orders soft drink manufacturer

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – The soda production company Dolly filed a request for debt recovery alleging financial difficulties related to the impossibility of transferring its bank accounts. According to the company, with the blocking of accounts by Justice, it is not possible to fulfill the most immediate financial commitments, which amount to about 20 million reais. The petition entered the second Court of the Court of Judicial Recourse of São Paulo last week and was accepted this Wednesday by Judge Marcelo Barbosa Sacramone. Without the approval of the judge, Dolly is expected to lay off a thousand employees in the coming days, according to the document.

"This was the only way to prevent the bankruptcy imposed by the Federal Court of São Bernardo do Campo," says the text.

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The request was made on behalf of the companies Dettal, Brabed and Empare, which control the Dolly brand. According to the text, with the permanent blockade of badets made by the Federal Court, there is "no money in account for making employee payments, payroll taxes and taxes". The bank balance and badets blocked by the court system rise to about 150 million reais, according to the company.

In addition to the application, the lawyers requested the release of bank accounts, with the amounts deposited at the date of the ban. They also asked Eletropaulo not to cut the energy of the units due to delays in the payment of bills and that the machines, subject to fiduciary alienation, should not be stopped for the company to continue to operate.

Judge Sacramone ordered that the bank accounts be released, but not the amounts already settled. In addition, with the recovery application accepted, the energy dealer will not be able to interrupt the supply, for 180 days, because of existing debts, which would result in the. interruption of the operation of the company, writes the judge, who also suspended the executions and actions against the company. Machines can not be stopped without the permission of the judge. Laspro Consultores, represented by Oreste Nestor de Souza, has been appointed as a receiver

According to the company, the units of São Bernardo do Campo and Diadema, both in the ABC of São Paulo, remain in business. Earlier this month, the company decided to close the Tatuí factory in the interior of São Paulo, after blocking the company's accounts for justice. At least 700 people were fired.

Laerte Codonho, the owner of the company, was arrested in May – and released a few days later – charged with tax evasion of at least $ 4 billion. Prosecutors Rodrigo Mansour and Arthur Lemos have stated that Codonho is one of the largest ICMS debtors in São Paulo.

The arrest of the businessman was requested because there was a history of destruction of evidence, according to them. According to the Prosecutor of the Republic of São Paulo, only 2 billion reais are owed in the ICMS. Another nationwide survey indicates that social security tax fraud amounts to an additional R $ 2 billion.

"We found large amounts of money stored in fake walls, fake funds in the home of the businessman," reports Lemos, citing that the prime minister has seized at least 200 $ 000 in cash, in addition to $ 30,000. .

Charge against Coca-Cola

Codonho was referred to the 77th DP and arrived at the police station with a sulphite paper in his hands that read "Caught in Coca-Cola", written in red lipstick. He stated that his arrest was due to a "Coca-Cola lawsuit" and that he was "a victim" of the schemes practiced by his accountant. Researched, Coca-Cola said that he "does not comment on the trials in which he is not involved".

Dolly called the prison "unfair". "Lafer Codonho has always collaborated with the authorities and will not fail to prove its innocence, the defense will appeal the decision and will trust the courts," said the company in a statement.