The club owes its employees 13 months’ salary in addition to the 13th salary. The delays would be the result of commitments suffered by the institute, which has paid millions of dollars to these “creditors”, whose names are not disclosed America pays more than R $ 8 million to alleged “internal creditors” and generates controversy
The America football team – the so-called “second tike of all Cariocas” – has settled debts of R$ 8 million with “internal creditors”, with the resources received in a lawsuit against Eletrobras. The information is contained in a spreadsheet the club shared with GE, when the vehicle released a report addressing the amounts involved in the process and how the money would be used. The topic is generating more and more controversy in the Club, whose headquarters in Tijuca was demolished for an alleged construction of a shopping center that never left the ground.
The so-called “internal creditors” cited by America are said to be individuals with whom the club has allegedly borrowed money in recent years. According to the ge site, the leadership of America has refused to name the people in question, but the vehicle has discovered that among them there would be the president of the High Council, Léo Almada; and the general secretary of the club, Marco Antonio Teixeira, uncle of Ricardo Teixeira, former president of the CBF.
“America has only spent one year in Serie A since 2014. Serie B has no subsidies, no TV quota. When it gets sponsorship, it’s usually in exchange for services. It’s an ambulance, water… It has practically no income, lives only on expenses, it is very difficult to manage a club like this,” club president Sidney Santana told the newspaper, adding “these are creditors who have helped the club stay alive to this day, who have helped get here.” DIÁRIO obtained information from several sources that a businessman in the hospitality sector was making deposits to the Club’s account, but there was no one to confirm the information within the association, champion of Rio de Janeiro for 7 times.
The Eletrobras trial earned America R $16,945,057.97 in two installments. The first paid in January 2021, in the amount of more than R$ 15 million. The second, of approximately R$ 1.8 million, was paid in August of the same year. The club still owes its employees thirteen (almost fourteen) months of salary, in addition to the thirteenth.
According to Sidney Santana, the wage arrears would be the result of the seizures suffered by the club, which had more than R$ 2.7 million blocked in its current account.
“When we received the money from Eletrobras, we mined the sheets first. If I’m not mistaken, we had three expired sheets, with the 13th and everything. The first step we took, before paying our creditors, was to pay everyone. The employees, the athletes, the coaching staff. And only then do we amortise, don’t pay, no, the debt to creditors,” Santana explained to ge, estimating that the R$8 million will reduce about 30% of the alleged debt to internal creditors. But, according to him, “the Things got worse because our financial planning was sacrificed in American accounts, we had 27 blockages in club accounts.”
Below is the breakdown of expenses, according to America’s management, as reported by GE:
Admission: BRL 16,945,057.97
Departures:
Partial repayment to creditors for loans granted – BRL 8,143,988.43
Lease of temporary headquarters (leases open since April 2016) – BRL 750,000
27 Labor Court Blocks in US Current Account – BRL 2,344,540.58
Judicial and extrajudicial employment contracts – BRL 111,324.48
Expenses with electricity, telephone and other – BRL 87,805.42
PROFIT – BRL 157,687.04
Salaries from 10/2020 to 09/2021 – BRL 3,146,867.67
Bank charges, interest and discharge of the negative balance at the bank – BRL 1,420,381.61
Expenses with the football department – BRL 1,420,381.61
Stadium improvements and additions – BRL 335,371.53
The total value of the execution in the Eletrobras trial was R$ 44.4 million, of which approximately R$ 17 million was withheld in court due to the foreclosures, the remaining R$ 9 million was distributed among the various lawyers who they acted in the cause, and most of the professionals participated in the distribution of the huge fees for the action.
For acting in the trial since 2018, the office of Marcelo Jucá, former president of the Rio Sports Justice Tribunal (STJD); and Fábio Lira, attorney general for volleyball of STJD, received R $ 5,703,176.14. Other 1,546,489.32 reais relate to expenses for the unsuccessful case. There is also the figure of R$ 4,156,686.92, which was paid by the club in the form of contractual fees.
The American president told Ge at the time that all amounts paid to lawyers were fair. For him, without the work of professionals, the club’s victories would not have come.
“America signed a contract during my tenure with Marcelo Jucá’s office. Luckily, ok? It was thanks to this office that the thesis was overturned. When he entered his office, the process was practically lost. The discussion in the execution was about the amount (of the payment). Eletrobras stating that it was 300 BRL, a negligible amount, and America claiming that it was a few hundred million, which indeed happened,” he said the president of the club, adding that “Marcelo Jucá’s office reversed the situation. And we signed a contract with him that was worth 10% of the sentence. It was money better spent.”
Source: Terra
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