Globo manages to recover R$ 318.6 thousand transferred by mistake

Globo obtained a provisional decision in the Justice of Rio de Janeiro to block R$ 318,600.40 transferred by mistake by an employee of the group.

THE sheet labor lawyer Marcos Antônio Rodrigues dos Santos, 54, who received the money, says he did not refuse to return it, nor did he use the money to buy a property, as the company stated in the request made to the court. “I never refused to return it. It’s a very embarrassing situation. [o jurídico da Globo] agreed with me one thing and did another”, he says.

The deal, according to him, was to transfer the money on January 21, when he would return from vacation. Before that, on the 11th, the company went to court. In the initial request to the 3rd Civil Court, Globo says that there was a “lapse” in the transfer of the money, which would fund an agreement made in September in a labor lawsuit.

Globo says it does not comment on cases in progress in court.​

“On December 30th, a person I don’t know came to me on WhatsApp and told me what had happened. I explained to her that I was on vacation and without the token [código de acesso para verificar processos]but that I had seen my statement and actually had two company deposits”, says Santos.

The lawyer claims that he has been involved in several labor lawsuits against the group and since March 2021 he has received transfers from Globo through agreements reached in the Judiciary.

“When the person told me, I got suspicious because it’s not that simple to make a mistake like that. This type of transfer is made from minutes. I couldn’t just return it, I needed to see if it really was from some my process”, he says.

For him, the person who contacted him via WhatsApp abused his trust. “I mentioned that I had bought an apartment and that’s why I used my checking account, and they used that in the initial.”

On Monday (21), Judge Luiz Felipe Negrão, of the 3rd Regional Civil Court of Barra da Tijuca, granted emergency relief (urgent provisional decision) and ordered the blocking of the money. The legal term for the measure is foreclosure. Santos says the money has already been returned.

In the decision, Negrão states that the person who received the transfer by mistake “does not have extensive assets, so much so that, after receiving the amount by mistake, he took care of quickly appropriating it and using it in the purchase of an apartment”.

“They said on social media that I ran out to buy an apartment, this is absurd”, says the lawyer.

The negotiation of the property, an apartment in the north of Rio, continues and he awaits the completion of the registration.

Santos says he asked for compensation for moral damages of R$ 200 thousand and confidentiality of the process.​

The decision of the 3rd Civil Court determined the inaccessibility of the property purchase rights provided for in the signed contract and prohibited the assignment of these rights to other people. Marcos Santos says he hopes that the return of the money will also release the conclusion of the deal.