Op 15 januari 2014 heeft Acciona bij de rechtbank te Rio de Janeiro (Brazilië) een civiele zaak aanhangig gemaakt jegens Naval, OSX Brasil en OSX Leasing. In de daartoe opgestelde dagvaarding refereert Acciona onder verwijzing naar de derdenrekeningen Escrow Account I en Escrow Account II aan de in de Termination Agreement vastgelegde zekerheid voor haar vordering. Daarbij wordt ten aanzien van OSX Leasing gesteld:
“OSX Leasing has to receive resources arising from the sale of assets and operating income of agreements of active leases. All received amounts shall be deposited, mainly, in an account referred to as Escrow Account No. I, (
Escrow I
), intended to the warranty of (…). After payment of the financial institutions, the remaining amount should be immediately directed to another account, referred to as Escrow II”.
In de bedoelde dagvaarding heeft Acciona haar vorderingen als volgt geformuleerd:
“VII. CONCLUSION AND REQUEST
Due to the foregoing, Acciona requests the preliminary grant of the request for interlocutory relief, in order to determine that the Defendants
(i) provide the opening of Escrow II, as well as constitute the pledge on it, in the terms of the applicable legislation, within 10 (ten) days, counted from the summons for such, under penalty of a relevant daily penalty to be established by this Eminent Court and also suppression of the manifestation of will in order to constitute the account in the terms of the termination contract and
(ii) notify, within the term of item ‘i’ of this request, the Administrative Agents of CEF (…) and of BNDES (…) about the necessity to make the destination of the credit balance of Escrow 1 to Escrow II, in accordance with item 4.1. of the Termination Instrument”.
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