In this way, the succession fight in which the Zuccardi family is located, one of the most important in the field grocer of Argentina, has the province of Mendoza in suspense and could set a precedent at the national level for the calculation of the inheritances and derive in the bankruptcy of the company.
Last August, The Supreme Court of Justice of Mendoza sentenced José “Pepe” Zuccardi to pay his sister María Cristina the sum of 12 million dollars due to the disparate distribution of the family inheritance.
The legal problem for the former head of Coviar did not end there, since now the sister has denounced him for an alleged emptying of companies that would have the objective of not paying him the sum stipulated by Justice.
The novelty arises from the complaint filed by the lawyers of the agricultural engineer María Cristina Zuccardi in recent days at the Economic and Computer Crimes Prosecutor’s Office.
The request not only against José Alberto “Pepe”but also against his daughter María Julia and against Pedro Giovanello, who serves as attorney for La Agrícola SA, of Viña Santa Julia SA and is a trustee of the “Familia Zuccardi” Trust.
The complaint requests “a precautionary measure and/or embargo on the 112 trademarks illegally transferred by José Alberto Zuccardi to Viña Santa Julia, so this measure must be noted and urgently communicated to the INPI as well as to the Directorate of Legal Entities of Mendoza to the purposes of guaranteeing the collection of the amounts established by the sentence.
The details of the complaint against José “Pepe” Zuccardi”
The presentation maintains that José Zuccardi would have and would be carrying out in the present “acts tending to become insolventand he would be liquidating his assets, forging it, hiding it and reducing it “together with Giovanello and his daughter.”
For thiswould have transferred “112 own trademarks with million-dollar values to a company made up of only his children. in the middle of the judicial process and after the sentence to circumvent María Cristina Zuccardi’s right to collect.”
Following the lawsuit that María Cristina won before the Court, the presentation maintains that there had been “suspicious movements in the La Agrícola company, warning that “it is necessary to remember that the entire lawsuit revolves around the family business La Agrícola, which is where “the alleged violation of the hereditary vocation occurs.”
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The complaint indicates that the alleged criminal action would have been carried out before, during and after the civil ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice of August 5, 2024, which condemns exclusively José Alberto and his assets, composed among others precisely of the trademarks that would have been transferred.
And this alleged transfer of shares would have gone to Viña Santa Julia SA., the exclusive property of his three children. “To be clear, a disguised donation through fraudulent insolvencywith only one financially damaged; Cristina ZUCCARDI and in mockery of the judicial decisions of the highest instance.”
The family history of the Zuccardis
The complaint reviews the history of the Zuccardi family, from the 60swhen Alberto Victorio Zuccardi and his wife Emma Cartellonewere owners of the vast majority of the shares of three public limited companies: La Agrícola SA, Cimalco SA and Cimalco Neuquén SA. A situation that began to change in 1991 when the distribution was made between the three children, and Cristina’s claim began. since it benefited exclusively to his son José Alberto.
The winemaker currently holds 99.7% of the shares of “La Agrícola”while the remaining 0.3% belongs to the three children, through donations made to each of them by their grandparents and their father.
“We will see in future expansions that this corporate composition and the values of the shares have undergone substantial modifications with the sole intention of essentially altering it with fraudulent maneuvers on the part of José, liquefying his assets,” the complaint says.
He also maintains that Viña Santa Julia belongs to his children María Julia and José Miguel since they would be the exclusive shareholders of that Public Limited Company and in turn they are shareholders of La Agrícola,
Regarding this situation, the Court’s ruling, signed by María Teresa Day, Pedro Llorente and Omar Palermo, indicated that the distribution of the family inheritance of the plaintiff’s parents and the defendant was “disproportionate and lacking a gender perspective, which that harmed the plaintiff and another sister.” This ruling of the Court could reach the Court of the Nation, so the matter is not closed.
Source: Ambito
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