The Consumer Protection Commission No. 2 of Indecopi ordered, this Friday, December 17, the company Colegios Peruanos SA (Innova Schools) to return to a mother of a family the money paid for the concept of admission fee and registration of his minor son, after verifying the breach of the contracted service.
In that sense, the agreed agreement that was not completed was the change of the student’s modality from face-to-face to virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So the mother decided to withdraw her little one from the aforementioned educational entity in April 2020.
“Although the parties had agreed that the payments for the entrance fee and registration would not be reimbursable, they did not establish the burdens and obligations that they would assume in the event of an extraordinary or unforeseeable event, such as the pandemic,” the Indecopi statement reads.
Likewise, the commission detailed that in this situation the Article 1431 of the Civil Code, which indicates that in case the contracted service cannot be executed for some reason beyond the control of the parties, the educational institution should have agreed to the reimbursement request.
It should be noted that the final amount to return for the entrance fee, paid in 2018, will be calculated by discounting the years in which the child did receive the service in person and any debt that the mother had with the school.
On the other hand, given the refusal of Innova Schools After returning the money, Indecopi imposed a fine of 3.49 UIT, equivalent to S / 15,356 for violating article 19 of the Consumer Protection and Defense Code.
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