The PCP wants to know if the Government intends to protect the former Alicoop workers against what it considers "an abusive action of the BPN/BIC", which summoned the former employees of the already bankrupt Algarve economic group to pay credits that, they claim, are the responsibility of the company N&F – Comércio e Distribuição Alimentar, which in 2012 acquired Alicoop.
According to the communists, «despite the bankruptcy of the Alicoop Group that has already occurred for several years, despite the closure of the stores of that same group operating in the retail trade area, with several stores distributed mainly in the south of the country, the former workers of this group The same economic group continues to suffer the consequences of several less clear operations, such as the contracting of dozens of loans by employees from BPN, for the benefit of the company».
Later, during the Alicoop Group's insolvency process, "the workers abdicated a substantial part of the credits due to them, in order to obtain in exchange the guarantee that the owner and responsible for the payment of the debts incurred would be the new company" , the N&F company, of the Nogueira group.
"This guarantee was enshrined in the Insolvency Plan, which ran at the Judicial Court of Silves with number 745/09.0TBSLU, approved on March 13, 2012, and which clarifies: "The debts incurred by employees of Alicoop, Alisuper and Macral with the Banco Português de Negócios, SA, within the scope of the capital increase of Urbisul, will be assumed by the new company (N&F) under the precise terms of the contracts in force with the extension of its term for the time elapsed after the declaration of insolvency, with the employees being released of any past, present and future responsibilities”, recalls the Parliamentary Group of the PCP.
An “Agreement on the Fulfillment of Installments Approved Under the Insolvency Plan” was even signed between the Nogueira Group company and Banco BIC, which framed the payment of this debt.
"It was therefore with surprise that these former employees of the Alicoop Group received the news that, after about two years, BIC is proceeding with enforcement processes for workers relating to the same credits that it was claiming from the N&F company", which, however, it also filed for insolvency.
Thus, the Parliamentary Group of the PCP wants the Government to clarify whether it is "following the situation of the workers of the Alicoop group who lost their jobs as a result of the closure of this company, namely with regard to the enshrinement of the rights stipulated in the plan of insolvency, relating to the cessation of responsibility for debts contracted with BPN'.
On the other hand, it demands to know if any diligence was carried out, «namely with the Bank of Portugal, to investigate the abusive performance of BPN/BIC, in view of the recovery of these credits, whose responsibility is of the N&F company and not of the workers».
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