The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice collects the file on a lawsuit for moral and material damages filed by the entertainer Gilberto Correa against his brother Jorge Correa Romero, his wife, María Celia del Corral de Correa and the German financial institution Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika Aktiengesellschaft (Dresdner Bank).
Because of this, the Chamber ordered the 8th Superior Civil Court of Caracas to collect and forward to the highest court of Venezuela file number 1670/01, nomenclature of the 9th Civil Court, “where the case related to the lawsuit was processed. that the citizen Gilberto Emiro Correa Romero filed for material and moral damages.”
Such decision is contained in sentence number 1094, written by magistrate Michel Adriana Velásquez Grillet and published on Wednesday. The magistrates point out that the file that they order to collect is key to resolving an appeal filed by Gilberto Correa who requested to review ruling RC.000594, issued by the Civil Cassation Chamber of the TSJ on November 29, 2010.
That judgment of the Civil Chamber ratified a decision made by the Eighth Superior Civil Judge on November 18, 2009, which declared Gilberto Correa’s lack of qualifications to sustain the trial against his brother and the German bank.
The damage
Gilberto Correa’s lawsuit dates from July 19, 2001. On that occasion, the television man denounced that the actions of his brother and the Dresdner Bank caused him an economic disaster.
In the 1990s, Correa opened an account at the aforementioned German bank and where he handled an average of 3 million dollars a year, according to the statement of the lawsuit.
The economic damages that the host of Sábado Sensacional denounced in the lawsuit began to materialize on June 23, 1995, the date the first loan was granted by the German bank, presumably without prior authorization from Gilberto Correa.
This loan was credited to Jorge Correa and María Celina de Correa for USD 125,000.
The second loan granted on account of Gilberto Correa’s deposits was recorded on August 2, 1995 for the amount of thirty-one million Japanese yen (JPY 31,000,000), which for the date corresponded to 95 yen for every US dollar. Japanese.
Said credit benefits went to a personal account of the Correa-Del Corral couple, “managed by the Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika AG, through a commercial company called Piscis Equities SA created by the same Bank, through the professional law firm, Mossack Fonseca & CO”, says the sentence of the Civil Chamber.
In answering the lawsuit, both the German bank and the Correa-Del Corral couple argued that the television presenter did not have the quality to try and sustain the trial. This, because the person he had contracted with Dresdner Bank and therefore the account holder (number 481439) opened at said institution was the company Piscis Equities and not Gilberto Emiro Correa Romero.
For 28 years (1972-1999) Jorge Correa maintained with his brother Gilberto “a close and important relationship of professional investment and business advice,” the lawsuit says.
Based on that relationship, Gilberto Correa “was surprised in his good faith from the moment he became a Dresdner Bank client by including him in the joint fixed-term account (575,355), owned by his brother Jorge Correa.”
The plaintiffs recalled that Jorge Correa was a senior executive at the Santiago de León Capital Market whose clients were allegedly recruited in Latin America by his ally, the Dresdner Bank.
The entertainer’s lawyers alleged that the aforementioned German bank “violated the entire Venezuelan legal system by opening a representative office in the country clandestinely, without processing or receiving the corresponding authorizations.”
Once the Constitutional Chamber collects the file of the lawsuit, it will make a decision as to whether or not to review the judgment of the Civil Chamber. The review may result in an annulment of the aforementioned sentence, explained a judicial source.
