Anna Christina Ramos Saicali is scheduled to embark for Brazil around midnight local time and disembark in Guarulhos early Monday morning
BRASILIA-A former director of Americanas Anna Christina Ramos Saicali, sentenced to preventive detention, handed herself in in Lisbon on Sunday 30th. Departure for Brazil is scheduled for around midnight, local time, and disembarkation in Guarulhos at the beginning of Monday morning. .
The former manager will then have to hand over his passport to the Federal Police and will be able to return home while awaiting the next steps of the investigation.
A review of the arrest warrant against Saicali It was Judge Márcio Muniz da Silva Carvalho, of the 10th Federal Criminal Court of Rio de Janeiro, who replaced the preventive detention order with a precautionary measure after his defense had informed that the former director had committed to returning to Brazil.
Saicali had been in Portugal since the 15th. The defense informed the court that he had a scheduled flight to Brazil on July 5th. The reservation was made on June 26, the day after the preventive arrest of the former director of Americanswithout the businesswoman’s lawyers explaining the shift in the date of return to Brazil (initially scheduled for the 26th).
Saicali is under investigation for alleged involvement in accounting fraud worth R$25.3 billion in America.
She joined the retailer in 1997 as director of people and technology. In 2004 you were promoted to CEO of B2W Digital, following the incorporation of Submarine.com. In 2018, she became chairman of the board and simultaneously heads Ame Digital, the retailer’s digital wallet. She also founded and served as CEO of AME, Americanas’ fintech platform, from 2021 to 2023.
Saicali was removed from her duties on February 3 last year, the month after then-CEO Sérgio Rial announced the company’s $1 billion loss.
In a market statement released on June 13, 2023 by Americanas, we read that a report carried out by the legal sector highlighted fraud in the accounting inconsistencies highlighted by Rial. “The documents analyzed indicate that the company’s financial statements were defrauded by former Americanas executives,” reads the document delivered to the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM).
The same declaration verbatim indicated the participation of Miguel Gutierrez and Anna Saicali in the scheme. Gutierrez has denied the allegations. The day she was to be heard before the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) of the Chamber of Deputies, open to investigate the violation of the Americanas, Anna took advantage of the habeas corpus to remain silent.
According to a complaint filed with the Court by the Federal Public Prosecutor of Rio, the two former executives allegedly committed accounting fraud, allegedly by advancing payments to suppliers through bank loans, operations known in the market as risky transactions.
The complaint also highlights the crimes of using privileged information, criminal association, money laundering and market manipulation.
On Saturday 29th the former CEO’s lawyers reiterated that he “never participated in or was aware of any fraud and collaborated with the authorities, providing the necessary clarifications in the appropriate places”. “Having access to the documents, Miguel will now be able to exercise his defense against the accusations arising from false statements against him”, said the manager’s defenders.
Source: Terra
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