Joelma has a pawned fee, is included on the PF list and the Court suggests fraud in partnership with her daughter

Joelma will have to drink much more than a tacacá to deal with the legal issues she faces. After managing to unlock her passport to travel and fulfill her European tour schedule, on her return to Brazil the singer has more issues to deal with within the process in which she is a defendant, along with her ex-husband Ximbinha, due to a debt labor contracted by the companies that managed the Banda Calypso’s career.

Despite having the document in hand again, Joelma will not be able to leave the country, according to the order of the judge of the 11th Labor Court of Recife, Gustavo Augusto Pires de Oliveira. In the document, in addition to asking for the seizure of her passport and preventing Joelma from being able to get a new one, he asked the Federal Police to place the singer’s name on the list of people prevented from leaving the country under any circumstances.

“Therefore, based on the principle of effectiveness, I determine that the Federal Police be notified in order to include an impediment to leaving the country, blocking of the passport and prohibition of issuing a new passport in relation to the executed JOELMA DA SILVA MENDES. If she If you are currently outside the country, the restrictions must remain pending until your return, given that no national can be prevented from returning to their country of origin. A warrant of diligence must be issued to the Regional Superintendency of the Federal Police in Pernambuco to be included in the STI – MAR system”.

Furthermore, the magistrate, in his order dated March 5th, ordered the value of one of the singer’s fees to be seized and deposited in court. In this case, R$ 125 thousand referring to a show held at São João de Caruaru, in Pernambuco.

The decision is part of the legal imbroglio that became the case filed by Calypso’s former businessman, Fabio Henrique Izaias, to whom Joelma and Ximbinha, through the former companies of which they were partners while married, owe around R$1.2 million.

If the debt wasn’t enough, Joelma is still suspected of circumventing the judicial system by operating her shows through the company she opened with her daughter, Natalia Sarraff.

“(…) I conclude, in preliminary and summary cognition, that the debtors in the present case used artifices with the aim of covering up contracts and payments that continue to be concluded and made to the defendant Joelma da Silva Mendes, due to her public and notorious artistic activity: (a) creation of the legal entity J SHOWS PRODUÇÕES ARTÍSTICAS LTDA.; (b) creation of another legal entity, J MUSIC EDITORA E PRODUÇÕES ARTÍSTICAS LTDA., to act as representative of the artist. In effect, Joelma da Silva Mendes appears as a partner in the company J SHOWS PRODUÇÕES ARTÍSTICAS LTDA., alongside her daughter, Natalia Mendes Sarraff”, begins the judge.

The labor judge continues his conduct, suggesting fraudulent conduct by the artist so that her part of the debt she owes to the former employee is not debited from her accounts:

“Furthermore, through a broad interpretation of article 792, § 1, of the CPC, fraudulent attempts to misappropriate assets by the executed party, during the course of the action, deserve to be considered ineffective in relation to the creditor”.

Both Joelma and Ximbinha claim that there are no assets available to be sold or seized, as they are part of a sharing, which has not yet taken place, within the contentious divorce between the two and which has been going on since 2015.

In judge Gustavo Augusto’s last statement, he does not spare Joelma from criticism.

“(…)JOELMA DA SILVA MENDES continues to sign contracts and perform shows around the country, using her own daughter’s company to cover up payments. The defendant’s conduct reveals a total lack of commitment to cooperation and the manifest intention of obstructing the enforcement measures imposed to his detriment, hiding from the Judiciary while he continues to boast a high standard of living resulting from his fame”.

The singer’s lawyers speak out

Joelma’s lawyers sent a note to the “Hugo Gloss” portal saying that the decision was reversed and that the debt is being negotiated.

“We inform you that, in less than 48 hours, the aforementioned decision that judicially restricted Joelma Mendes’ right to come and go was reversed after complete proof that such debts are not related to the artist. The debt in question dates back to a period of band’s career in which Joelma did not exercise any control over the financial administration. Joelma deeply regrets the existence of these debts, arising from inadequate management during a phase of her career that she would prefer to forget. However, she is taking all necessary measures to resolve this situation in a fair and effective manner.”

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