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Commission File Number 1-15250

 

 

 

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.  Form 20-F ___X___ Form 40-F _______

 Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  

Yes _______ No ___X____

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Publicly-Held Company

CNPJ (Corporate Taxpayer’s ID)

#60.746.948/0001-12

 

 

 

Notice to the Market

 

 

 

Banco Bradesco S.A. (“Company”), in response to Official Letter no. 368/2016-CVM/SEP/GEA-1 of July 29, 2016, regarding the news item published on the same date in the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, Market section, entitled Novo Comandante Deve Ser Definido nos Próximos Dias (New CEO will be elected in the next few days), hereby declares that the speculations about changes in the Company’s Board of Executive Officers and the beginning of the succession process are totally unfounded.

 

Cidade de Deus, Osasco, SP, August 1, 2016

 

Banco Bradesco S.A.

 

Luiz Carlos Angelotti

Executive Managing Officer and

Investor Relation Officer

 

Official Letter no. 368/2016-CVM/SEP/GEA-1

 

 

Rio de Janeiro, July 29, 2016.

  

 

To

LUIZ CARLOS ANGELOTTI

Investor Relations Officer

BANCO BRADESCO S.A.

Núcleo Cidade de Deus, Prédio Vermelho, 4º andar - Vila Yara

Osasco - SP

CEP: 06029-900

Telephone: (11) 3681-4011/ Fax: (11) 3684-4630

E-mail: 4000.diretoria@bradesco.com.br

c/c: emissores@bvmf.com.br; ccarajoinas@bvmf.com.br; apereira@bvmf.com.br

  

Subject: Request for clarification of news item.

  

Dear Sir,

 

1.        In reference to the news item published on this date in the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, Market section, entitled Novo Comandante deve ser definido nos próximos dias (New CEO  will be elected in the next few days), which includes the following statement:

As Bradesco’s CEO, Luiz Carlos Trabuco, and two executive officers are under investigation for allegedly being part of a bribery scheme with payments to members of the Administrative Council of Tax Appeals (Carf), the bank has accelerated Trabuco’s succession. On Thursday (28), the Court accepted the complaint filed by the Office of the Federal Attorney General against the bank’s three executive officers and another six people investigated by the Federal Police in Operation Zelotes.

2.        In view of the above, we hereby request that you clarify if the news is true and, if so, why you did not consider it to be a material fact, as well as comment on other information deemed relevant about the subject.

3.        The response should be sent through the Sistema Empresa.NET, category: Notice to the Market, type: Clarification on CVM/BOVESPA Inquiry, subject: News Disclosed in the Media, which should include the transcription of this official letter.

4.        We warn you that, in accordance with the Corporate Relations Superintendence, in the exercise of its legal duties, and based on item II of Article 9 of Law 6385/76, and CVM Instruction 452/07, a punitive fine of one thousand reais (R$1,000.00) will be applied, without prejudice to other administrative sanctions, for non-compliance with the request contained in this official letter, by 9:30 a.m. of August 1, 2016, as of the knowledge of the content of this letter, sent exclusively by e-mail, notwithstanding the provisions of sole paragraph of Article 6 of CVM Instruction 358/02.

   

Sincerely,

Document electronically signed by Nilza Maria Silva de Oliveira, Manager, on July 29, 2016, at 5:45 p.m., pursuant to art. 1, III, "b", of Act 11,419/2006.

 

 

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