Motormexa Announces Filing of Lawsuit Against Mr. Rufino Vigil Gonzalez, Chairman of Grupo Simec
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- In regards to a press release Issued by ACOSA, an Ex-Subsidiary of Grupo Simec (NYSE: SIM, BMV: SIMEC) on July 16 2010, Miguel Angel Rubio from Motormexa made the following clarifications.
1. Since the year 2003 and until October of the year 2006, ACOSA was a subsidiary of Grupo Simec and during that entire term Mr. Rufino Vigil Gonzalez was the Chairman of the Board and legal representative of Grupo Simec and of ACOSA.
2. The documents allegedly signed by Motormexa and that according with the expert witnesses appointed by the District Attorney's offices as falsified, have as date of issuing July 15, 2004; therefore, at the time the alleged crime of fraud was committed against Motormexa and the Covarrubias family, ACOSA was a subsidiary of Simec and Mr. Vigil its Chairman of the Board.
3. Based on the described elements and according to Mexican legislation, Motormexa and the Covarrubias family are legally claiming the payment of US$400,000,000 (Four hundred million Dollars) from Mr. Rufino Vigil Gonzalez and Simec as indemnity for the damages and losses suffered from the alleged crimes.
4. To this date, Motormexa and members of the Covarrubias family have filed three criminal complaints in Mexico against Mr. Rufino Vigil Gonzalez and Grupo Simec for the alleged crimes of falsification of signatures, use of false document, simulation of legal actions and simulation of evidence, false declaration before authorities, procedural fraud and attempted fraud (criminal complaints or preliminary investigations FPC/74/723/06-10 and FPC/74/T2/692/06-10 of the District Attorney's office of Mexico City, Federal District as well as file number 2593/2009 of the District Attorney's Office of the State of Jalisco). In all of such cases, the corresponding authorities were requested to appoint the professional expert witnesses that could issue a report with broad technical support; the conclusion of the different expert witnesses with regards to the signatures where Motormexa and members of the Covarrubias family allegedly signed is the following: the signatures are totally falsified and may not be attributed to the aforementioned persons.
OF THE FIVE SIGNATURES THAT WERE REVIEWED, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM HAS RESULTED TO BE FALSIFIED.
Motormexa and the Covarrubias family have been defending themselves during the last 5 years and will continue to do so both in the United States of America, as well as in Mexico, against alleged attempted fraud, false statements, forgeries, use of falsified documents, false declarations before authorities, procedural fraud by Mr. Rufino Vigil Gonzales and Grupo Simec, SAB de CV.
To this date, Mr. Rufino Vigil Gonzalez has an arrest warrant issued against him for a felony which would not have the right to bail; the judicial authorities and Interpol continue in his search and he is therefore considered a fugitive of justice.
For additional information including the criminal complaints and expert witness reports of the District Attorney's offices please consult www.vigilsimec.com
SOURCE Motormexa, S.A. de C.V.
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