Postal Savings Bonds: for Poste Italiane another blow comes from the Court of Lecce

Condemned to pay the full amount provided for the issue: more than 60 thousand euros plus interest and expenses in favor of a user. Another injunction issued by a court in charge of the appeal of a citizen who turned to the "Rights Window"

(by Giovanni D'Agata - Rights Desk) Another important result of the “Rights Desk”, on the age-old issue of old-fashioned postal savings bonds. An injunction against Poste Italiane was published on 30 October by the Court of Lecce, in the person of the professional magistrate Dr. Sergio Memmo, for the exorbitant amount of more than 60 thousand euros, plus interest and expenses, following the deposit of the appeal by two users with postal savings bonds in old lire not yet redeemed belonging to a close relative who has long since died. At the due date, a ninety-year-old son and mother went to the Poste Italiane counter to ask for payment of the amount that had to be paid at maturity, which should have been equal to an equivalent in euro of 61.277,84.

The director of the office, as now usually happens, opposed the willingness to pay only half of the amount, due to the notorious ministerial decree 148 of 1986, known as Gava-Goria, according to which with retroactive effect and in defiance of what is indicated in interest-bearing bonds, yields were also halved for those issued from 1974 onwards. Like many other citizens, therefore, the two beneficiaries did not give up and turned to the "Rights Desk", which for years has continued to face a battle of justice and legality for the protection of savers who have opted for the purchase of Postal Interest Bonds against the unjust and illegitimate desire expressed by Poste Italiane to pay amounts only equal to half of those foreseen for the subscription. The judge of the Lecce court considered the reasons given by the savers assisted by the lawyer Donato Maruccia to be well founded and, in fact, sentenced Poste Italiane to pay the full amount of 61.277,84 euros, plus interest, fees and procedural costs against the modest investment in lire, paid at the time of subscription.

For Giovanni D'Agata, president of the "Rights Desk", this is another very significant precedent not only for the considerable amount of the investment, certainly among the highest nationally ever recognized by the judicial authority, but also because it does justice to those who have sacrificed their lives to save even very large sums and have not been reimbursed as promised upon expiry with interest actually accrued. At the same time, we will continue to invite all those who are in possession of expired Postal Interest Bonds, not to waste time because, as we have repeated several times: "there is a real risk of losing forever the investments of a lifetime if you do not act within the right term because the statute of limitations is around the corner and neither Poste Italiane nor Cassa Depositi e Prestiti will warn you or your grandparents, parents and old uncles that that piece of paper kept in a drawer indicating an amount in old lire can represent a treasure that you will lose forever ».

Postal Savings Bonds: for Poste Italiane another blow comes from the Court of Lecce

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