The Parvalorem and Parups said on Wednesday that the courts gave as extinct lawsuits against the output of 85 works of Miró of the country, but that the Public Prosecutor (MP) “appealed to all decisions which were unfavorable. ” In a statement sent to Lusa agency, the two companies created by the State to recover the credits of the former Portuguese Business Bank (former BPN) make a status report on the processes related to one that was one of the mediated cases in the area of culture, in 2014, and remains on hold by the “pending legal issues.”
This is a way found by the two companies to pressure the government to move to a new auction after the first was canceled by Christie’s in February last year, due to the filing of an injunction by the MP. Moreover they proceed with the amount spent per day in interest due to ongoing proceedings and that comes directly from the pockets of taxpayers. The board of directors regrets that “the suspension of this process have made incur Societies Par’s costs, to date, 1.9 million in interest on taxpayers, ie, 5251.5 euros per day”, estimating the value in credits according to the former BPN not recovered by the sale of them.
It is recalled that after the first injunction, were brought by three other MP and two other key actions that, according to the company, “demanded, in summary, the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage to undertake the classification and inventory of works.”
“Following these interim measures , the procedure for reviewing the feasibility of works of art classification was initiated and subsequently legally filed in August 2014, “added the companies holding the collection.
” All court proceedings, to date, were fully supportive of Companies Par’s “supports the board of directors in a statement, referring to the Parvalorem and Parups. It adds, in the three-page document sent to Lusa, that “it was with surprise that it was found that the prosecution appealed to the Supreme Court, of all decisions that have been unfavorable” and “applied even an injunction and presented more a main action. “
Over the past year, both the opposition parties and the Attorney General of the Republic, Joana Marques Vidal, publicly defended the classification of works, evaluated between 35 million and 53 million, not to leave the country.
In 2014, more than 10,000 people signed a petition in favor of retaining the 85 works of art in Portugal and all the opposition parties made initiatives in parliament calling for the cancellation of the sale and the classification of the set.
The Secretary of State for Culture, Jorge Barreto Xavier, even asked to open the proceedings of rating to the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage (DGPC), but the companies refused, supporting himself by the law of heritage, which only requires to accept the process after ten years from the date of importation of the goods concerned.
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