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Alejandro Vandenbroele refused to receive money to declare against Amado Boudou: "They want to frighten the repentant"

2/19/2020, 10:02:50 PM


The collaborating witness said that if someone paid him it was "the group" of the former vice president.

02/19/2020 - 18:57

  • Clarín.com
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The repentant witness of the Ciccone cause Alejandro Vandenbroele , refused to have received money to testify against Amado Boudou, who is being held in the context of that cause.

The federal prosecutor Paloma Ochoa had required an investigation into whether there were irregularities behind Alejandro Vandenbroele's statement as repentant, within the framework of the so-called Ciccone Case for which the former vice was convicted. The alleged payment to Vandebroele was acknowledged to address his statement.

"Nobody paid me to testify with Amado Boudou ," Vandenbroele told Todo Noticias. He added that "the plan to stay with Ciccone was from the K government" and that "the idea was to make money for African countries."

He added: "They want to intimidate the repentant"

"The Government of Macri paid witnesses and also judges with charges. The judge who sentenced me was promoted by decree to the Federal Chamber, nor did it follow that he won a contest. Here there were witnesses, experts and trout judges," he had denounced This week Amado Boudou himself from jail.

Patricia Bullrich also spoke about allegations of irregularities in the Ciccone case. "That's crazy, how are we going to pay someone to testify against Boudou? The goal is to turn the cause," Bullrich said in the report and added that the witness protection system "pays any repentant." "You are given money per month when you are in the system," he completed.