Payment ordered against borrower and guarantor
The court ordered a borrower and its guarantor to pay a pension fund represented by Daniel Zahavi NAf 2,121,443.54, together with contractual interest at 9% per year from 1 September 2007 until payment. The judgment also awarded litigation costs and was declared provisionally enforceable. Payment by either defendant would discharge the other to the extent of that payment.
The records supporting the balance
The dispute concerned outstanding obligations under commercial lending arrangements. The borrower acknowledged that a substantial debt remained, but challenged the calculation of the amount demanded. The guarantor disputed whether payment could already be required from it. Those objections made the account records and the wording of the guarantee central to the proceedings.
In an earlier ruling in the same proceedings, the court required the fund to provide further support for its calculation. That ruling was an intermediate step rather than a payment award. The fund subsequently supplied additional records and adjusted its demand, allowing the court to assess the balance against the parties’ signed documents.
The final judgment examined account schedules showing how the debt developed over the relevant period. The opening balance matched a schedule attached to a signed supplemental agreement. Although the defendants referred to records lost in a fire, they did not identify specific inaccuracies or inconsistencies in the material subsequently supplied. The court found their general challenge insufficient to defeat the substantiated payment claim.
Guarantee and costs
The guarantor’s argument that liability depended on the borrower’s failure to perform did not prevent judgment. The court had already found the relevant nonpayment established. It noted that legitimate interests of the guarantor should be respected during enforcement, while concluding that this did not bar a payment order against it.
The result included NAf 17,150 in assessed legal fees and NAf 14,042 in litigation disbursements. A separate request for extrajudicial collection costs was refused because the work described did not justify compensation beyond the applicable litigation-cost assessment. The principal and guarantee claims therefore succeeded, with a specific limitation on additional fees.
What the judgment establishes
The case illustrates how signed loan documentation, a supported account history and the terms of a guarantee can determine a commercial payment dispute. The figures describe sums awarded by the court. The judgment does not establish that those sums were subsequently collected, and this account does not describe the award as money received.
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