Company: BCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-026390
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Company: BRINKS CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 98
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 matter. We recognized an estimated loss of $9.5 million in the third quarter of 2021 related to a potential fine associated with an investigation by the Chilean Fiscalía Nacional Económica or “FNE” (the Chilean antitrust agency). The investigation is related to potential anti-competitive practices among competitors in the cash logistics industry in Chile. These costs are not considered part of the Company’s operations and revenue generating activities. Additionally, the nature of these amounts is such that they are not reasonably likely to recur within two years, nor were there similar charges within the prior two years of the underlying event. Management has excluded these amounts when evaluating internal performance. Therefore, these amounts have not been allocated to segment or Corporate results and are excluded from non-GAAP results. Internal loss. We recorded charges and gains associated with the impact of actions by a former non-management employee in our U.S. global services operations. The former employee embezzled funds from Brink’s and, in an effort to cover up the embezzlement, intentionally misstated the underlying accounts receivable subledger data. We incurred costs to reconstruct the accounts receivable subledger, to reserve for uncollectible receivables and for legal expenses to recover insurance claims. Subsequently, we recognized gains as we collected previously reserved receivables and the insurance claims. In 2020, we incurred $0.3 million in costs (primarily third party expenses) to reconstruct the accounts receivables subledger. Based on the reconstructed subledger, we were able to analyze and quantify the uncollected receivables from prior periods. Although we planned to attempt to collect these receivables, we estimated an increase to bad debt expense of $6.6 million in 2020. In 2021, we recognized a decrease in bad debt expense of $3.7 million and $1.3 million of legal charges. In the fourth quarter of 2021, we successfully collected $18.8 million of insurance recoveries. Both the expenses and the gains related to this matter are not part of the Company’s operations and revenue generating activities.

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Additionally, the nature of these amounts is such that they are not reasonably likely to recur within two years, nor were there similar charges or gains within the prior two years of the underlying event.