Lucia Salinas
02/10/2020 - 17:07
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation considered that in the absence of procedural risks - that is, a danger of flight or obstruction of the investigation - the arrest warrant issued by Judge Claudio Bonadio issued against Cristina Kirchner in the case must be null and void. notebooks of the coimas, which never became effective because the vice president has privileges. Now, about Cristina there are only two other orders of pretrial detention in files that were detached from the central investigation of notebooks.
After deciding which Chamber should deal with the request for the defense of the vice president, in charge of Carlos Beraldi, progress was made in the analysis of that requirement and that of others charged in the case. The lawyer had requested a "prompt dispatch" of his request, since the process was delayed when the judges of the Cassation discussed which room should resolve the request.
This Tuesday, unanimously, the judges of the Chamber I, Diego Barroetaveña, Daniel Petrone and Ana María Figueroa decided to accept that proposal and to put aside the preventive detention of Cristina Kirchner, dictated by Judge Bonadio when he processed her as head of an association illegal that was dedicated to the collection of bribes paid by contractors of the State, according to the accusation.
The case is already up for trial as all the investigations that arise from it, and filed in the Federal Oral Court 7 (TOF 7).
In the Cassation, they were concerned to underline that the resolution of this Tuesday responds to the changes in the Criminal Procedure Code that limited preventive prisons, and that does not imply any modification in the accusations and considerations expressed in the file regarding the alleged responsibilities of the vice president.
The debate related to what room should be resolved on the prison that falls on Cristina Kirchner originated when the judges understood that it should be the same room that is in charge of the file on the purchase of ships of Liquefied National Gas (LNG), which was which allowed Bonadio and prosecutor Carlos Stornelli to instruct the Cuadernos case and related cases.
Once the jurisdiction of the Chamber of the highest criminal court that intervenes in the ex-president's request was resolved, the corresponding hearing was taken, in which lawyer Beraldi held that the detention “has no basis, since on the 10th of December Cristina assumed as Vice President of the Nation, a circumstance that makes it unimaginable to escape or hinder "the cause.
In addition, the defender of the Kirchner family indicated that the request for detention against Cristina Kirchner is “arbitrary, shameful and grotesque,” and reiterated that there is no risk of leakage or obstruction of the investigation that is already closed and elevated to judgment.
Last December, the Federal Oral Court 8 (TOF 8), which is responsible for the cause of the signing of the Treaty of Understanding with Iran , left without effect the prison that Bonadio also issued against the former president. He considered that there was no risk of escape due to his current position as Vice President of the Nation, added that the trial would not begin in the short term.
Under similar guidelines, the Cassation now decided to revoke the preventive detention and request for lawlessness issued by Bonadio in the main file of the notebooks case. Cristina Kirchner still has two more requests for arrests in investigations related to the "mother cause." This is the section that investigated bribes in turns to public works and rail transport subsidies.
Now the vice president's defense will also request that these preventive measures be without effect.
With this scenario, the former president's judicial front will be made up of eight files raised to oral trial (six of them in corruption cases) and a single trial in progress, which is the one that investigated the alleged direction of the public work in favor by Lázaro Báez.
