Empiricus disputes TC accusation over anonymous video

A technical opinion commissioned by Empiricus says there are “substantial elements to indicate the falsity” of images of message exchanges in which company directors allegedly discuss the publication of an anonymous and defamatory video against its competitor TC (Traders Club).

In an interview published by Sheet on July 26, TC President Pedro Albuquerque accused Empiricus of being behind the apocryphal video. Empiricus, which denies being related to the play, told the report that it intends to use the opinion to challenge the accusation in court.

Albuquerque stated that, among the elements that led him to make the accusation, are alleged exchanges of messages by WhatsApp of the directors of Empiricus.

The files, he said, arrived anonymously at TC through its investor relations channel.

The accusations were repeated at a news conference broadcast over the internet, also on July 26, in which Albuquerque presented images of the dialogues to which he referred. The TC claims to have no reason to doubt the veracity of the documents it has received.

It was based on these images presented by Albuquerque that criminal lawyer Roselle Adriane Soglio and criminal expert Luiz Antonio Santos de Oliveira presented their conclusions in the opinion to Empiricus.

At the conclusion of the document signed this Monday (1st) and which was presented this Tuesday (2nd) to the report, Soglio and Oliveira say that “there are substantial elements to indicate the falsity of the prints presented at the press conference” and that the material could have been produced “through an application easily found on the internet that allows the creation of ‘fake’ conversations, in conversation applications such as WhatsApp”.

The opinion also states that the material “does not allow the identification of the author of the false conversations” presented at the press conference, “which can only be analyzed with physical access to the equipment and email accounts that allegedly received the material”.

Soglio and Oliveira close the text saying that “they reserve the right of reanalysis and conclusions” exposed “in case new facts that impact the conclusions of the present work come to modify the premises that will serve as a basis for the technical opinion”.

Sought this Tuesday, the TC stated that “it is inconceivable that the experts hired by Empiricus have not analyzed the cell phones used in the conversations”.

“If the owners of Empiricus, Caio Mesquita and Felipe Miranda, want an effective clarification of the case, let them present their devices to the Federal Police so that they can be officially examined. The TC has no reason to doubt the veracity of the documents it received”, he informed. the TC, in note.