The Judicial Court of the Western District of Lisbon decided to foreclose assets belonging to the Amor Ponto company, owned by TVI presenter Cristina Ferreira, for an amount of up to 4.7 million euros, according to notifications to which Lusa had access.
On June 11, the Amor Ponto was sentenced by the Sintra court to pay more than 3.3 million euros to the SIC for breach of contract with the Impresa group station.
The presenter appealed the decision, but did not request suspensive effects, nor did she present a deposit with bank guarantees, according to sources contacted by Lusa.
The court decided to execute the company’s assets, notifying several entities, seizing the credits, present and future, due and past due, held by the company Amor Ponto, worth up to 4.7 million euros, which include interest.
In the June decision, the Sintra court sentenced the company to “pay the plaintiff SIC Sociedade Independente de Comunicação SA the amount of 3,315,998.67 euros, plus interest, at the commercial rate, from the date of provision of the service until effective and total payment.”
The Sintra court ruled partially in favor of the parties, recognizing a payment of 3,536,666.67 euros from Amor Ponto to the SIC, but acquitting the presenter.
“The court decided to condemn Amor Ponto Lda to pay SIC the arbitrated compensation, absolving Cristina Ferreira of this request, on the grounds that the contract for the provision of specific services signed had been between SIC and Amor Ponto Lda, not confusing this with her majority partner. and manager,” the court states in the note.
Amor Ponto was established in 2008, as Cristina Ferreira, Sociedade Unipessoal and adopted its current name in 2019, having also had the name Cristina Ferreira, Lda.
According to data from June, Amor Ponto has three shareholders: Cristina Ferreira, her father, António Jorge Ferreira, and Docasal Investimentos, a company that also has the same two shareholders.
Amor Ponto was recognized with a credit of 220,668 euros, already with interest, for “amounts represented by invoices issued and overdue, corresponding to payments of advertising and contest commissions.”
In the court’s opinion, the contract between SIC and Amor Próprio was not freely revocable.
In September 2020, SIC filed a lawsuit against TVI fiction and entertainment presenter and director Cristina Ferreira, before the Lisbon District Judicial Court.
Cristina Ferreira’s departure from SIC was announced on July 17, 2020, when it was announced that she would return to TVI – where she had left about two years before – in two months as director and would become a shareholder of Media Capital.
The Lusa agency contacted Cristina Ferreira about the matter, but the TVI presenter declined to comment.
Source: Observadora
