Perhaps we need to start approaching Portuguese lawyers who are prepared to act for depositors in a class action lawsuit.
I have no experience of Portuguese law and lawyers . Maybe others know a suitable law firm ?
How we select the lawyer and apportion costs to each of us for his time is more difficult .
Also there are many more victims of EPB than what appear here on this forum. How can we or any lawyer hired reach out to them ? Perhaps EPB customer services could help in emailing all customers about a proposed customer class action lawsuit - but somehow I doubt their cooperation given that it's run by the Receiver .
It would be interesting to hear what other people think about the way forward.
You don't have a claim against anyone in Portugal, forget Portugal, but you and all customers are entitled to ask the OCIF what's going on? The OCIF is legally responsible for everything that has happened, and for everything that is yet to come, so go ahead and contact Natalia, she is the commissioner of the OCIF in Puerto Rico, she is the one that closed the bank and appointed the useless Receiver.
By the way, I remember someone in this thread managed to talk to the secretary of the Receiver if I'm not mistaken, so maybe it would be a good idea to call the Receiver again and see if they are willing to at least give you an update as to what is really going on, and how much longer is this going to last.
Or alternatively, contact Natalia at the OCIF
You don't have a claim against anyone in Portugal, forget Portugal, but you and all customers are entitled to ask the OCIF what's going on? The OCIF is legally responsible for everything that has happened, and for everything that is yet to come, so go ahead and contact Natalia, she is the commissioner of the OCIF in Puerto Rico, she is the one that closed the bank and appointed the useless Receiver.
By the way, I remember someone in this thread managed to talk to the secretary of the Receiver if I'm not mistaken, so maybe it would be a good idea to call the Receiver again and see if they are willing to at least give you an update as to what is really going on, and how much longer is this going to last.
Or alternatively, contact Natalia at the OCIF.
You do have a claim against some entity in Portugal if they are stopping you from receiving your money.
The money, as I understand it, left Puerto Rico and is stuck in Portugal.
Yes you could make a claim against OCIF but that would be on the grounds of illegally closing the bank. I don’t know how easy that would be to prove.
That would be effectively suing the Puerto Rico government for $66m.
I wrote a few emails to OCIF Head Natalia - if she ever read them personally - she never wrote back.
No point in suing Receiver. He won't have $66m .
So I think the focus right now should be Portugal. That's where EPB has already hired a lawyer. But we have yet to hear of any progress from this lawyer.
why schiff appointed an advocate in portugal then if ocif is responsible for all this s**t ? either he says bulls**t either he is crazy... i have no idea who we should claim for this because we don't know all the story... and everybody carrefully makes sure that customers are unable to know whos is responsible... as long as we won't have every elements it will be difficult to know what to do precisely... Can't we hire someone who will sue all of them lol ??
Yes you are right that customers are being kept in the dark so it's difficult to know who to target , because we don't know the full story.