The Federal Court of Cassation confirmed this Monday that the former president Cristina Kirchner will continue to be investigated in the “K money route” case after rejecting a proposal from her defense. In this way, Sebastián Casanello is the first instance judge who, together with prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan, will continue with the money laundering case in which businessman Lázaro Báez was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Now it was the judges’ turn Gustavo Hornos and Javier Carbajo, from Chamber IV of Cassationwho, in response to a proposal made by the former president against the ruling of the Federal Chamber “is inadmissible” and that is why they rejected the appeal. In this way, Cristina Kirchner will return to the center of the scene in this case for which Casanello on two occasions ruled that she had no merit because he considered that There is not enough evidence to move forward.
In this case, through the trial that was held, 17 defendants were convicted, including the businessman Lázaro Báez to 10 years in prison; his son Martín, 9 years old; the repentant Leonardo Fariña to five, and other businessmen. The former vice president was never prosecuted in the case and last year, in a ruling, It was Guillermo Marijuan who strikingly—after filing the complaint repeatedly against him—, acknowledged that there was no evidence of money laundering.
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In his opinion, the prosecutor named the businesses between the businessman and Cristina Kirchner, in addition to more than 300 communications between his secretaries and themselves, but said that there was no crime to investigate. But The Federal Chamber paved the way by making room for a proposal from a macrista civil association called Republican Bases and, now, after this ruling is confirmed, Marijuan and Casanello will continue with the case.
In response to the former president’s complaint, the chambermaids Hornos and Carbajo expressed: “The route attempted by the appellant is inadmissible since the decisions attacked do not fall within the provisions of article 457 of the National Criminal Procedure Code. to the extent that it is not a final or equivalent sentence”. Then they added: “Nor is it noted, nor was the appellant able to demonstrate that the questioned resolution produces the challenger a grievance of late or impossible subsequent reparation”.
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Days before Casanello decided to dismiss Cristina Kirchner, The Republican Bases association presented itself as a plaintiff to avoid the closure of the case. After an initial rejection by the first instance judge, the NGO appealed that decision and reached the Federal Chamber, where at the end of November the reopening of the investigation was ordered by the votes of judges Mariano Llorens and Pablo Bertuzzi.
At that time, The Federal Chamber argued that the case should be analyzed due to the “K money route” together with the evidence presented by the prosecutor Diego Luciani in the trial for the case Roadsstudy the case of Hotesur-Los Sauces and also suggested incorporating statements from “repentant” former officials in the case file. Notebooks.
Marijuan, after recognizing that there was no evidence to bring Cristina Kirchner to trial, had already anticipated that if Bases Republicanas could not be a plaintiff in the case, they would try to “do it in the Federal Chamber.” He also maintained that “We all know who those behind this presentation are. They don’t have the guts to come and present themselves. What they are demonstrating is that they are trying to apply a procedural chicane“.
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On its website, the organization presents itself under the following premise: “We work for a society that respects the essential rights of the human being, individual freedom and private property, with full functioning of the institutions that guarantee them. We ensure the consolidation of a Republic based on the division of powers, democracy, the independence of State functions, the full exercise of the rule of law, transparency in public management and supremacy and equal application of the law.”
The role of president of Republican Bases is occupied by Valeria Viola, who was National Director of Institutional Coordination and Chief of Staff of the Secretariat of Provinces and Municipalities of the Ministry of the Interior during the government of Mauricio Macri. She was also involved in the Panama Papers. The first vice president is Pablo Nocetti, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of National Security and Secretary of Cooperation with the Constitutional Powers of the same Ministry, in the management of Patricia Bullrich during the Macri presidency. He was also a defender of repressors of the last dictatorship and was involved in the case of Santiago Maldonado.
Among the macrista members, they also stand out Juan Curuchetformer official of María Eugenia Vidal; Inés Liendoleader of the PRO in Salta; Pablo Clusellaschildhood friend of the former president and former Legal and Technical Secretary of the Nation; Lucas Aparicioformer Secretary of Labor of the Nation; Jimena De la Torrefounder and former president of Republican Bases, former member of the Judicial Council and former chief of staff of the AFIP in the Macri government, and Federico Pinedoa founding partner of the NGO, former provisional president of the Senate of the Nation.
ML / ED