The tour in Bahia is a tradition of the 3rd year university students; The value of the company’s disputes says that the amount is around $ 120,000 and requires to seek alternatives to mitigate the damage
More than 50 students of the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto from University of San Paolo (USP) They report a loss of about $ 170,000 after closing a travel package in Bahia. The Tourist Agency Kairós Viagens and Pilgrimages disputes the value – says that the amount is about $ 120,000 – and says that “it will seek all the legal alternatives to mitigate damage and promote compensation”.
The victims are students of the third year of degree and affirm that the Bahia tour in December is a tradition to college, organized by students as a way to celebrate the closure of the basic cycle – frequented in the first three years of graduation – and the transition to the clinical cycle, which starts from the fourth year.
However, after paying $ 170,000 to Kairós, they were surprised on July 8, when the company announced on its Instagram profile that the agency’s activities were suspended.
“We are without travel and without reimbursement,” says the student Elisa Nogueira Barbosa.
Elisa is among the 53 students of the School of Medicine who joined the Kairós travel package and paid about $ 5,000 (some made the payment in cash and others opted for the installment module).
In learning the problems involving Kairós, the students questioned the owner of the company Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues, who guaranteed, according to Elisa, that no one would have been injured and that the journey was guaranteed. “He had a meeting with all the stickers and assured that he would issue air tickets until August 8,” Elisa said. “We trust and expect.”
However, on the 8th of this month, Rodrigues contacted the students and said he would not be able to take the tour or return the money. Insecure, some students have started canceling the payment of the trip. Some have already had the amount reimbursed by the credit card. The total damage, at the moment, is about $ 170 thousand, according to the victims.
Students claim to have recorded an electronic police report and have collected tests to go to the police station. The State Public Security Secretariat (SSP-SP) has been questioned and the report awaits the return.
In the messages exchanged between the owner of Kairós and the medical students, the businessman claims to have decided to cancel the journey due to the reimbursement requests. “The only way we had to deliver the trip was the cancellation of all the other cards and then go directly to the airline and the hotel,” said Rodrigues in a message obtained from the report.
“However, given the insecurity of the group and the distrust towards the company, it was not an alternative but to make the full cancellation of the trip,” added the businessman to the victims.
In a note sent to EstadãoThe legal advice of the tourist agency states that requests for reversing payments by credit card have been accepted and will be adequately credited to the next customers’ invoices. Therefore, according to Kairós, students’ damage would currently be $ 120 thousand. “The amounts paid by the students add up to about $ 170 thousand of which about R $ 50 thousand have already been returned to payments made by credit card.”
The company also stresses that it is looking for solutions. “The situation is not configured as an act of bad faith or negligence, but an operational crisis of great size, deriving from external events that are treated with maximum severity and transparency. It is essential to emphasize that the current scenario is a civilian crime, due to the lack of a service by third parties and not as an estilione or” coup “, says the legacy legal advice.
Source: Terra
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