Oi closes agreement with AGU and will pay R $ 7 billion to the Union
In judicial recovery since 2016, the telecommunications group Oi closed an agreement with the Attorney General's Office (AGU) to obtain a 50% discount on the debt of R $ 14.3 billion with the Union. Debts came from 198 fines applied by the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) to the operator. According to the agreement announced by AGU, the remaining 50% of the debt will be paid in installments as follows. A total of R $ 1.8 billion deposited by Oi in Justice will be converted into income for Anatel, as payment of the first installments. The remaining amount will be divided into installments for the Telecommunications Inspection Fund (Fistel) , whose resources are one of Anatel's sources of financing. In a note, AGU reported that this is the largest agreement in history closed by the agency and Anatel. With the procedure, 1,117 tax enforcement actions, 199 annulment actions, 82 precautionary actions and 300 embargoes on enforcement were extinguished. According to AGU, t...