The Argentine justice confirmed Wednesday the launch of legal proceedings for corruption against Cristina Kirchner, former president and currently vice-president, as well as against a former minister and several businessmen.
The Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber, the highest criminal court in Argentina, declared
"inadmissible"
an appeal against these proceedings presented by the defense of Ms. Kirchner.
Julio De Vido, Federal Planning Minister during the presidencies of Nestor Kirchner and his wife Cristina (2003-2015), as well as several powerful entrepreneurs in the construction sector are being prosecuted in the same case.
All are accused of having formed an illegal association and of being involved in 175 cases of corruption between 2003 and 2015. The prosecution estimated the total amount of bribes paid from 2003 to 2007 at at least 160 million dollars. , during the presidency of Nestor Kirchner, who died in 2010.
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The file derives from the so-called
“corruption notebooks”
affair
, simple school notebooks in which a driver from the Ministry of Planning noted down his journeys for years, the names of officials and contractors to whom he gave information. 'money and the amount of money paid.
Cristina Kirchner, 67, is indicted in a total of nine cases of alleged corruption relating to events during her time as president, from 2007 to 2015. She believes that these prosecutions are due to political persecution against her during the presidency of his successor Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) and the personal hostility of Judge Claudio Bonadio, who died last February and who carried out most of the investigations targeting her.
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