Americanas reported on Tuesday (11) that it began arbitral procedure aimed at liable for former executives of the company for material and immaterial damages generated under the billionaire accounting fraud revealed in early 2023.
In a statement to the market, the company cites former American executives Miguel Gutierrez, Anna Saicali, José Timótheo de Barros and Márcio Cruz Meirelles.
The procedure instituted on Tuesday asks the payment of indemnities to the company for damages caused in the context of accounting fraud and “other illicit” practiced in 2022, in addition to the reimbursement of the company’s costs and expenses in arbitration.
“The company will seek to be fully reimbursed from all material and immaterial damages suffered as a result of the unlawful acts performed, and which will also be in detail presented during the procedure,” said Americanas in the document.
Sought by Reuters, an Anna Saicali representative did not respond immediately. Miguel Gutierrez’s staff said he will not speak up.
A lawyer by José Timótheo de Barros stated that the company “was used” since the relevant fact of 11 January 2023 – when Americans first revealed accounting inconsistencies – “to satisfy the spurious interests of the few.”
A lawyer from Márcio Cruz Meirelles said he has not yet obtained access to the procedure.
Americanas has been at the center of an accounting scandal for more than two years that led to its judicial recovery and investigations by the Federal Police and the Securities Commission (CVM), which in October accused the four and other former executives of using privileged information.
