Uncertainty in partners of the Juan de Salinas Cooperative amid merger request and legal dispute to avoid liquidation

Uncertainty in partners of the Juan de Salinas Cooperative amid merger request and legal dispute to avoid liquidation

The 5,000 members of the Juan de Salinas Savings and Credit Cooperative, from the Rumiñahui canton, in the province of Pichincha, are experiencing, these days, an atmosphere of uncertaintyl Not knowing what will happen to the entity in which they keep their savings and which last December went into liquidation by decision of the Superintendence of Popular and Solidarity Economy.

In the past week, several partners, some of them elderly, made a sit-in at the foot of the Superintendence of Popular and Solidarity Economy, requesting the merger of their cooperative with another, in order to save it and avoid liquidation. Vinicio Díaz, representative of the members of the cooperative, considers that a viable path could be the merger and that they be absorbed by a larger cooperative. At the moment, he said, the cooperative is working normally, but the partners have agreed to keep the money in the entity and interest payments are made and policy renewals are promoted.

Despite the apparent normality, at the moment, legal dispute continues in which the The partners obtained a partial victory when a judge from the Civil Judicial Unit of Rumiñahui left the decision of the control body unsubstantiated.

is thatthat the Judicial Unit of Rumiñahui accepted the protection action presented by Franklin Gonzalo Ayala Rubiomanager of the cooperative, and declaring that the rights to defense, part of due process, legal certainty and motivation were violated in the process of forced liquidation of the Juan de Salinas Cooperative.

What comprehensive reparation measure, it was decided to nullify the Resolutions No. SEPS-IGT-IGJ-INFMR-2021-0684 of December 1, 2021 issued by the SEPS Technical General Intendant(s); and, Resolution No. SEPS-INR-DNSES-2021-0021 of November 30, 2021, issued by the SEPS National Risk Intendant. 8.2. In these resolutions liquidation was proposed. In addition, it is ordered go back the process to the moment in which the first violation of rights occurred, that is, that the discharges presented by the cooperative in the intensive supervision process be addressed. All provisions made by liquidator Yesenia Petita Moreno Andrade, ordering her immediate departure from the facilities of the Juan de Salinas Cooperative.

He also ordered him to the SEPS publicly apologized to the Juan de Salinas Cooperative in a newspaper with wide national circulation.

The The Superintendency complied with the judicial provisions in mid-January 2022. Thus, Resolution No. SEPS-IGT-IGJ-INFMR-DNLESF-2022-0035 was issued on January 17, 2022, through which the content of Resolution No. SEPS-IGT-2022-0035 was revoked and nullified. IGJ-INFMR-2021-0684 and the corresponding apologies were published on January 18 in the newspaper Express.

Additionally, the Superintendency filed an appeal, which was accepted by the Rumiñahui court itself. The case is currently being processed, as of February 21, 2022, in the Specialized Criminal, Military Criminal, Police Criminal and Traffic Chamber of the Pichincha Provincial Court of Justice.

About the case, The Superintendence explained to this newspaper that “the judicial resolution does not imply, in any way, alteration or modification of the financial situation of the entity.” This issue and others were explained to several members of the Juan de Salinas Ltda. Savings and Credit Cooperative, on February 22, after they had previously requested an appointment using the respective form. Margarita Hernández, the superintendent, attended them personally, and a new meeting has been agreed for next March 7.

Source: Eluniverso

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