Cristina Kirchner was preparing his return to the public spotlight next Saturday, when he would join his presidential candidate’s campaign. Sergio Massa. This Tuesday, the Argentine left circle would announce the return of the vice president to the public after being in the backroom since July 17 last year, with a very brief appearance in the primaries on August 13, when she briefly expressed his voice in front of the press. But the judiciary changed the former president’s plans.
A court ruling was announced on Monday afternoon, according to which Cristina Kirchner must face two new oral hearings. One of them will be of course money launderingin a case called Hotesur-Los Sauces.
The two decisions came from Chamber I of the Criminal Cassation Chamber and were signed by the judges Diego Barroetave̱a And Daniel Petronewho was also brought to trial Maximo Kirchner Рthe son of the vice president and candidate for deputy Рin the money laundering case and they were acquitted Florencia Kirchner, the other daughter. The core of the allegation in this case is that the Kirchners allegedly received income from the business people in their companies. Lazaro Baez And Christopher Lopezas compensation for the business they conducted under the protection of the state.
Báez had already been convicted along with the vice president in the Roads case, which consisted of favoring the businessman in public works in the province of Santa Cruz during the governments of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner. The former president was sentenced to six years in prison and permanently barred from holding public office and appealed. For his part, Cristóbal López was tried and acquitted in a separate corruption case.
In 2019, the Hotesur-Los Sauces case resulted in the defendants being dismissed without a hearing with the votes of the judges. Daniel Obligado And Adrian Grünberg, as they explained that there was no money laundering because the law was not so aggressive back then and the funds were in bank accounts. The judge Adriana Palliotti At that time he refused to be fired.
Now, in 2023, the Court of Cassation has reopened the case, rejecting the challenge brought against him by Kirchner’s defense and removing judges Grûmberg and Obligado from the case. This is a response to the public prosecutor’s appeal Diego Velasco.
The other process will be for the signing of a secret pact with Iran with the alleged aim of helping fugitive Iranian suspects who had blown up the AMIA building in a 1994 terrorist attack that killed 85 people.
This case also puts the financial prosecutor in his sights Carlos Zanninithe senator Oscar Parrillithe leader of La Cámpora and minister of Buenos Aires Andres Larroque and the Deputy Attorney General Juan Martin Mena, among others. The complaint that led to the verdict was filed in 2015 by prosecutor Alberto Nisman, just days before he died from a shot in the head in what the judiciary considers a murder.