Conaprole confirmed that he will attend the Supreme Court of Justice to try to reverse the ruling against him, within the framework of his claim to the State for the debt of Venezuela by purchasing milk powder, made more than 9 years ago.
The dairy cooperative had warned that it was not going to give up its lawsuit for non-compliance with an agreement signed between Uruguay and Venezuela for the purchase of powdered milk, announced by the former president Tabare Vazquez in 2015.
The amount required Conaprole It is more than 60 million dollars, almost 32 million for the debt and the rest as “damages and losses.”
However the appeals court In early March, the First Turn Civil Court ratified the ruling that was given in the first instance, at the end of 2022, considering that the company began its claim outside the deadline established by law.
Conaprole spoke of shared responsibility between Uruguay and Venezuela
From Conaprole They consider that both countries had interference in finalizing the agreement. “One directly owes the invoice and the other participated in the genesis of that business,” said the president of the cooperative. Gabriel Fernandez, upon learning of the ruling more than two months ago.
Thus, Fernández points to the Uruguayan State and the Venezuelan company Corpovex, which is state. “As directors of the cooperative we cannot give up as long as there are possibilities,” Fernández anticipated at that moment, pointing out that “the money belongs to the producers,” at a time when the money would be useful, since the exchange delay harms the sector.
Meanwhile, since Venezuela They assure that the country “was not and is not a party to the aforementioned contracts, having not signed any of them and there is no rule that attributes jurisdiction to the Uruguayan courts”, clarifying that “Corpovex “It is not the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
Thus, the Caribbean country broke away from the agreement sealed on June 6, 2015, when Vazquez announced the agreement in which Conaprole had to export 44,000 tons of powdered milk and 12,000 tons of cheese, an equivalent of 39 million dollars.
Source: Ambito
