Court orders Dudu to compensate Leila Pereira with R$50,000 for moral damages

The attacker Dudu, currently at Atlético-MG, was sentenced by Justiça of São Paulo to pay R$50,000 for moral damages to the president of Palmeiras, Leila Pereira. The decision came from judge Sérgio Serrano Nunes Filho, from the 11th Vara Cível of Tribunal of Justiça of São Paulo, and considers that there was a personal offense in the so-called “VTNC case”. The player can appeal the sentence.

Interpretação from acronym and personal offense

Dudu argued that “VTNC” meant “I came to work at Cruzeiro”, but the judge rejected this thesis. The judge considered that the expression exceeded the limits of freedom of expression and constituted a personal offense against the leader. In the judge’s assessment, the verbal attack was directed at Leila as a person, and not as a criticism of his professional performance.

Redução of requested initial value

Leila Pereira’s initial request was for compensation of R$500,000. The judge reduced the amount to R$50,000 because he understood that other strong statements by the attacker remained in the field of professional criticism. Além In addition, the sentence ruled out the possibility of gender discrimination (misogyny) in the expressions used by Dudu.

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• Valor initial requested: R$500 thousand
• Valor fixed: R$50 thousand
• Data of what happened: January 2025
• Período: Dudu output from Palmeiras to Cruzeiro

Pedido otherwise completely denied

Dudu had requested compensation against Leila Pereira due to the manager’s criticism of his performance. The judge denied this request in its entirety. Segundo the decision, president alviverde’s speeches exclusively addressed the athlete’s professional performance and did not contain direct personal offense. Essas criticism remained within the legal limits of freedom of expression.

Sentence Condições

The sentence sentenced Dudu to pay R$50,000. The athlete will not be obliged to post the results of the trial on their social networks, as Leila had requested from Justiça. Segundo found out, the alviverde representative plans to donate the amount to an organization defending women who are victims of violence.