(EFE) claims.
The lawyer Alison Macdonald has refuted one by one the legal arguments raised since last January 23 by CRF, which this afternoon will do the same with the Cuban position, before on Thursday both have the right to reply.
Macdonald reiterated that “it was defective” the assignment to the fund of the contractual rights to that debt that until then was managed by the ICBC Standard Bank, authorized on November 25, 2019 by the former director of operations of the BNC Raúl Olivera Lozano, who has testified that he himself breached the procedures.
The lawyer asked Judge Sara Cockerill of the commercial division of the London High Court to “reject” CRF’s contention that Olivera’s 13-year sentence in May 2021 for allegedly accepting a bribe from Jeetkumar was “a sham.” Gordhandas, a consultant to the investment group registered in 2009 in the Cayman Islands.
“There is no evidence, let alone admissible evidence in this trial, to support the allegation that the Cuban sentence and the investigative processes and trial that led to it proceeded on the basis of fabricated or false evidence,” Macdonald said.
The lawyer added that “there is no evidence” to “challenge the honesty” of the Cuban authorities
The lawyer added that “there is also no evidence” to “challenge the honesty” of the Cuban authorities who, after receiving another request from CRF in November 2020, expressly denied the reallocation of the debt, considering that it was a “fund vulture” focused on claiming your payment through the courts.
His colleague Anton Dudnikov later questioned “the experience” and the rigor of the testimony offered for CRF by the Cuban lawyer based in Spain Hossana Rodríguez Calvo, who did not hide “her feelings against the regime” Cuban, and pointed out that her own legal expert, Juan Mendoza, was more reliable.
The Cuban Minister of Justice, Oscar Silvera, arrived in the United Kingdom on Tuesday to witness the last sessions of the process. “I am in London. I will participate in the final days of the hearing in the High Court of England. We defend the truth: Banco Nacional and Cuba confirm that CRF has not been and is not their creditor,” he wrote on Twitter.
The parties are expected to conclude their arguments on Thursday, when the magistrate will indicate the approximate date on which she could pronounce her ruling, which could take weeks.
Once it is known, the parties can appeal, so the process could take time.
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