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Carlos Zannini prepares to save Cristina Kirchner from a million dollar lawsuit

2020-05-24T22:42:04.379Z


As Treasury Attorney, he can close a claim for damages against the vice president for $ 22,500 million pesos. It is the amount that the State claims for the cause of Roads and includes the millions that he derived from Lázaro Báez for unfinished works.


Lucia Salinas

05/24/2020 - 19:09

  • Clarín.com
  • Politics

Carlos Zannini holds in his hands the key to save Cristina Kirchner from a multimillion-dollar lawsuit. It all started in August of last year when, in the administrative contentious jurisdiction, the National Roads Directorate (DVN) filed a claim for damages of $ 22.5 billion, against the vice president, Lázaro Báez, Julio De Vido, and other defendants in the alleged corruption in public road works, with which the Austral Group led by Báez benefited. Since 50% of the contracts awarded were not terminated, but were paid at a premium, the State considers that they must compensate said economic damage.

The Treasury Attorney, as head of state attorneys, can order the agency to abandon that claim. Now, the Attorney is Zannini, Cristina's right-hand man and in charge of protecting her interests. It is in her hands to tear down that claim to help her political boss.

The figure is multimillion-dollar and the Government of the previous administration considered that Cristina Kirchner and the others accused of the alleged direction of public road works in favor of businessman K, are collectively responsible. They are required to face a compensation of $ 22,500 million to the State with their respective assets .

The claim emerges from the file by which the vice president is judged as the head of an illicit association, which - according to the accusation - defrauded the State by directing road contracts in favor of Lázaro Báez. They gave the partner and friend K $ 46,000 million without control to carry out 51 tenders. This “criminal association”, according to the Justice, “functioned in a stable and permanent way” during the twelve years of K management, for the “subtraction of public funds through the discretionary allocation of practically 80% of the road works” that ended up in the hands of Baez.

These maneuvers, the previous Government understood, caused "financial damages" to the State, and for this reason Vialidad filed a civil lawsuit, demanding that the defendants receive compensation for 22,500 million pesos. The figure is not random. The previous management set it after a technical report from Roads. As explained to Clarín , this amount is explained by the money poured in favor of the Austral Group (46,000 million), less the works not completed (24 in total), the years that were budgeted, the damages caused by delays and administrative costs , in other aspects.

As the Court that judges the vice president decided that during the trial the lawsuit should not be included, Vialidad - under the management of Macristas - filed the case in the contentious administrative forum because the Federal Justice did not accept it. There were cross appeals between Vialidad and Cristina Kirchner's defense and the Supreme Court must resolve the competition.

To expedite the procedural deadlines, the highway agency withdrew the claim in the criminal jurisdiction and went directly to the administrative dispute where issues involving the State are settled. The demand was filed last year in the National Prosecutor's Office 6, in charge of Miguel Ángel Guilligan.

The particularity with which the Government of Alberto Fernández is today is that a state agency has a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the vice president. The other fact to consider is that the head of the National Highway attorneys is the Treasury Attorney, that is, Zannini, co-accused with Cristina in the case for the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran. They are accused of covering up the Iranians responsible for the AMIA blast. 

As a Treasury Attorney, you have at least three ways to drop demand. By means of a resolution of the current management of Roads, requesting that the claim against the vice-president be dismissed, that the "actor" that is to say the one who denounced, without giving up the action does not promote it and that they can dictate the expiration of the instance, or directly that Zannini present and require it directly.

In the administrative contentious forum, the presentations have two parts, the actor who is the one who denounces and the defendants. Although it is the judge who empowers the prosecutor to advance, the "actor" is the one who must promote the movement of the file. The legal advisers of Roads who must demand that the vice president face a compensation for $ 22,500 million, have a boss: Carlos Zannini.

Source: clarin

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