The National Milk Producers Cooperative (Conaprole) sued the Uruguayan State for US$61 million claiming a debt for the export of dairy products to Venezuela that has not been collected.
“Supposedly there is a government guarantee that was granted at the time and we are verifying its veracity in order to be able to respond. We are going to do the maximum defense of the interests of the State,” the Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, Fernando Mattos, told the press when reporting the lawsuit.
Conaprole demands US$31.8 million for the export to the Caribbean country since 2015 of 265,000 tons of food that included powdered milk, rice, soybeans, chicken and cheese.
Is the State guarantor?
What is pending is not all of what was sold, since an important part was paid, but more than US$30 million would be pending.
The undersecretary of the MGAP, Ignacio Buffa, also confirmed this Tuesday in the program Value added radio Carve that “a legal situation is going through the business with Venezuela that the previous administration carried out.” The ministry’s lawyers, he added, are analyzing the lawsuit and how the state will proceed. They study the documents presented by Conaprole to claim that the Uruguayan State is the guarantor of the monies owed.
“The trial is a good instrument to settle responsibilities in this process because it is not convenient for a company not to charge for the business it carries out. Something will have been done wrong in the negotiation to reach a trial with the Executive. It is a problem of the previous administration that we must solve ourselves”, indicated Buffa.
The Montevideo Portal media assures that they would have found out that the lawsuit was filed by the Posada y Vecino law firm, and was addressed to both the Uruguayan and Venezuelan states.
