Lucia Salinas
12/03/2020 2:38 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/03/2020 2:38 PM
Amado Boudou became the first former vice president with a corruption conviction upheld by the Supreme Court of Justice.
Following the decision, the Federal Oral Court 4 (TOF 4) was notified, who sentenced Cristina Kirchner's former running mate to five years and ten months in August 2018 for the Ciccone case.
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the execution judge Daniel Obligado granted Boudou house arrest and now he
must define whether he continues under this modality or if he returns to prison.
Boudou was imprisoned after hearing the TOF 4 ruling that condemned him in the Ciccone Case, finding him responsible for the crimes of bribery and incompatible negotiations in August 2018. It was only this year, in the midst of the Covid pandemic, when the 6 In April, the execution judge,
Daniel Obligado, granted him house arrest.
He is then monitored by an electronic ankle brace at his home in Barracas
With the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice, the TOF 4 was notified and the same execution judge who had decided for health issues and the lack of firmness of the sentence, granting him house arrest, is the one who must re-issue in this regard .
Daniel Obligado must determine whether the sentence will be served in prison or will continue under the current moderation modality.
Cristina Kirchner's former running mate obtained the benefit of the domiciliary, with electronic monitoring, after one of the many presentations made by her lawyers Graciana Peñafort and Alejandro Rúa.
What aspects did the Obligatory judge analyze?
He argued that the current global context of health emergency due to Covid 19, "disrupts practically all the guidelines of interpersonal relationships, thus affecting the implementation of the behavioral objectives that ultimately successfully achieve the social insertion of those who are convicted, once regained his full freedom, "he wrote.
Explaining this point more fully, he pointed out that
Boudou is in a couple with two small children, "since the family group"
of his companion
"resides in Mexico, and has difficulties traveling due to his father's illness
, to which, now , it would be possible to add the practically worldwide travel ban ".
Thus, it was that in the midst of the release of prisoners in the framework of the pandemic, the former vice of Cristina Kirchner began to serve his house arrest.
In that resolution, the magistrate analyzed other aspects, and referred to the accusation of bribery and incompatible negotiations for the sale of the former Calcográfica.
He then pointed out that
there is "lack of firmness in the alleged sentence imposed on Boudou"
, as claimed by lawyers Peñafort and Rúa.
The confirmation of the Court that now has just failed was missing.
When deciding to fix the house arrest, Obligado argued that the detention should "be considered a precautionary measure called to apply only during the period strictly necessary to guarantee the proposed procedural purpose", insisting that the sentence for bribery was not yet final, despite to have a confirmation from the Criminal Cassation Chamber that last year, unanimously, confirmed the ruling of TOF 4 that ordered the formal execution of the former vice's sentence in the Ciccone case, sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in jail for the fraudulent sale of the former intaglio.
Ciccone: the banknote machine
When the Chamber of Cassation confirmed Boudou's conviction, it indicated that because he was "prevented from carrying out negotiations for his own benefit and to the detriment of the interests of the Nation," Boudou "used his personal friend, José María Núñez Carmona -who directed the Alejandro Paul Vandenbroele's performance - using shell companies and sham operations that made it difficult to track down the real owners of the business and understand the true scope of the illegal deal. "
The maneuver continued.
Once in control of the firm, the group led by the former vice president -according to the court ruling-, was "manipulated for personal gain, at least, three state agencies: the Casa de Moneda SE, the AFIP and the National Commission Defense of Competition "so that they" benefit the former Calcográfica Ciccone ".
In this section of the maneuver, Resnick Brenner and César Guido Forcieri also participated "who embodied the will of Amado Boudou," said the Cassation.
The firm was financially and legally rescued in an "illegitimate way and was able to contract irregularly with the National State," the resolution indicates.
In the case, it was pointed out that the circuit closed in April 2012, when the Government hired Ciccone -under the leadership of Vandenbroele, Boudou, Núñez Carmona-, to print 160 million hundred-peso bills, a job for which the State paid 140 million pesos.
Partisan works were also commissioned: the intaglio printed ballots for the Front for Victory.
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