Lucia Salinas
11/24/2020 2:17 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 11/24/2020 2:17 PM
Federal judge Marcelo Martínez De Giorgi dismissed Cristina Kirchner and more than 200 defendants in a file related to the cause of the bribery notebooks.
He is the one who investigated the alleged payment of bribes by the group companies that received subsidies from the State.
Judge Claudio Bonadio had tried her as the head of an illicit association dedicated to organizing and collecting these bribes.
The crimes were "conspiracy, bribery and fraudulent administration."
But the Chamber of Cassation annulled that decision and after several months, the magistrate decided to order the dismissal.
In another case related to the notebooks case, the Chamber did confirm the expansion of an accusation against the current senator and vice president candidate.
The dismissal for the vice president
was issued in the investigation on subsidies to the bus transportation service.
For the late Judge Bonadio, the alleged returns by the companies benefiting from the subsidies were part of a
"criminal maneuver"
that was structured by the Federal Planning Ministry.
For Justice, that illicit association -for which Cristina Kirchner was sent to trial-, "developed its activities approximately from the beginning of 2003 to November 2015, and its purpose was to organize a fundraising system to receive illegal money in order to get rich illegally. "
In this section, it had been proposed that in the transportation area, Ricardo Jaime and Juan Pablo Schiavi, as Transportation Secretaries;
Julio De Vido, -ex Minister of Federal Planning-, and the auditors of the National Transportation Regulation Commission, Roque Lapadula, Pedro Ochoa Romero and Antonio Sícaro, generated as "participants in the maneuver", a damage to the State of almost 610 millions of pesos.
The maneuver consisted of delivering subsidies higher than those corresponding to be able to receive the bribes.
But magistrates Leopoldo Bruglia and Pablo Bertuzzi ordered that the investigation be deepened.
After a series of test measures were ordered, to deepen the investigation, Judge Martínez De Giorgi in charge of the court that belonged to Bonadio, ordered the dismissal of Cristina Kirchner.
After a complete and comprehensive evaluation, the existence of the "various factual circumstances of the investigated events" was ruled out, and consequently, it was not possible to elucidate
"the existence of a criminal act tending to achieve a particular benefit at the expense of the public interest,"
through the improper granting or obtaining of the aforementioned subsidies for passenger motor transport ".
At the time, Bonadio had argued that the defendants were "commanded by Cristina Kirchner" and set up a collection system that made it possible to calculate the subsidies based on kilometers "higher than those actually traveled by the groups and, consequently, they would end up being delivered subsidies higher than those corresponding ".
This illegal maneuver "could be sustained until GPS was installed in the buses, in 2014. The subsidies were delivered in two ways: in cash and in diesel quotas at a differential price."
Among the businessmen who will continue to be investigated in this case are Mario Cirigliano, Carlos Kovac, Héctor Ledesma, but together with more than 200 defendants, they were also dismissed.
To date, Cristina Kirchner has been processed with confirmation and sent to oral trial, only in the main case of Cuadernos and in two related files: the cartelization in public works and the subsidies to trains.
