Alexander Alfie
08/20/2020 - 14:19
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Judge Juan Pablo Augé summoned Mauricio Macri's private secretary, Darío Nieto, and the former heads of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), Gustavo Arribas and Silvia Majdalani, to testify in the case for illegal espionage 24 political leaders, journalists and union members.
Judge Augé also summoned them to carry out an extension of the investigation to a score of former spies and the former coordinator of Presidential Documentation, Susana Martinengo, who had already testified before the previous judge in the case, Federico Villena.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Judge Augé decided that all the inquiries be by videoconference, so he has not yet set a date for their conduct, waiting for the Judicial Council to "assign a platform" that allows the inquiries to be carried out properly. remote.
Prosecutors Cecilia Incardona and Santiago Eyherabide had requested last Monday that Judge Augé summon the 24 accused of illegal espionage to an investigatory statement. "We consider that those named formed a criminal organization built from the very apparatus of the Central State, especially from the National Executive Power and one of its direct dependencies, the Federal Intelligence Agency," the prosecutors stated in their 195-page opinion.
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