Amor Ponto company was ordered to pay more than 3.3 million euros to SIC for breach of contract with the Impresa group broadcaster. Court decided to execute the company’s assets worth up to R$4.7 million, with interest.
The Judicial Court of the West Lisbon District decided to execute the company’s assets Love Pointby TVI presenter Cristina Ferreirain an amount up to 4.7 million euros.
According to notifications to which Lusa had access, on June 11, Amor Ponto was ordered by the Sintra court to pay more than 3.3 million euros to SIC for breach of contract with the Impresa group station.
The presenter appealed the decision, but did not ask for suspensive effects, nor did she present a deposit with bank guarantees, according to sources contacted by Lusa.
The court decided to execute the company’s assets, notifying several entities, seizing the credits, present and future, past due and coming due, that the company Amor Ponto holds, in the amount up to 4.7 million euroswhich already includes interest.
In the June decision, the Sintra court ordered the company to “pay the plaintiff SIC Sociedade Independente de Comunicação SA the amount of 3,315,998.67 euros, plus interest, at the commercial rate, from the date of service until effective and in full. payment”.
The Sintra court ruled partially in favor of the parties, recognizing a payment of 3,536,666.67 euros from Amor Ponto to SIC, but acquitting the presenter.
“The court decided to order Amor Ponto Lda to pay SIC the arbitrated compensation, absolving Cristina Ferreira of this request, as it understood that the concrete service provision contract signed had been between SIC and Amor Ponto Lda, this not being confused with its majority and managing partner”, points out the court in the note.
Amor Ponto was incorporated in 2008, as Cristina Ferreira, Sociedade Unipessoal and adopted its current name in 2019, having also had the name Cristina Ferreira, Lda.
According to June data, Amor Ponto has three shareholders: Cristina Ferreira, her father, Antonio Jorge Ferreira, and Docasal Investimentosa company that also has the same two shareholders.
Amor Ponto was recognized with a credit of 220,668 euros, already with interest, due to “amounts represented by invoices issued and overdue, relating to payments of advertising and competition commissions”.
In the court’s opinion, the contract between SIC and Amor Próprio was not freely revocable.
In September 2020, SIC filed a lawsuit against the presenter and director of fiction and entertainment at TVI Cristina Ferreira, at the Judicial Court of the District of Lisbon. channel 3 20 million euros to the presenter.
Cristina Ferreira’s departure from SIC was announced on July 17, 2020, when it was announced that she would return to TVI – where she had left around two years before – in two months as director and would become a shareholder in Media Capital.
The Lusa agency contacted Cristina Ferreira about the matter, but the TVI presenter declined to comment.
