Lucia Salinas
05/21/2020 - 19:39
- Clarín.com
- Politics
After Clarín released the response of the Technology Directorate of the Council of the Magistracy on the problems they currently have to carry out large-scale trials online, the explanation opened a debate within the body where some of its members expressed concern about the delay in some prosecutions, including the one with Cristina Kirchner as the main accused, for the alleged direction of public works in favor of Lázaro Báez, or also the case known as the Ruta del Dinero K that It has 24 defendants and requires connection for about 60 people.
In the midst of the Covid19 quarantine, extended for more than fifty days, the Supreme Court of Justice required the Courts to propose the best way to resume the trials that had already begun prior to the pandemic. Then began a circuit of consultations by the judges to the Council of the Magistracy, responsible for the administration of the funds that guarantee the functioning of Justice.
The response to different Oral Courts by the Council's Technology Directorate was the same: "at the moment we are in the stage of developing new solutions. The availability of authorized resources amounts to 122 ports throughout the country , and requires the installation of a client and a vpn for each participant, "says the note.
From the Council they explained that it is a system dimensioned for "normal times with a majority of internal participants and mostly external fixed points (consulates, courtrooms, etc.)", which forced "work working in modalities that allow this new operation flexible "but not yet" with dates or details that can communicate ".
Given this response, a controversy opened in the Council, where some of its members, including the deputy of Together for Change, Pablo Tonelli, raised in a note to which Clarín agreed , as " lack of respect for the directors who That answer, which the Director of Technology would have given, had occurred without our knowledge (neither before nor after) and it strikes me that the subject was not mentioned at the Labor meeting last Tuesday, at which time the response would have already been sent. "
They also pointed out, in the note sent to the President of the Council, Judge Alberto Lugones, that the concern prevails before "an answer that says that we cannot assist them in conducting an oral trial remotely" because we have not yet developed an adequate platform "
On the other hand, Deputy Tonelli maintained that the answer is " inadmissible ", since "as has been demonstrated with the remote sessions of both houses of Congress, there is no need to develop any platform for this type of mass meeting. All you need to do is use and eventually adapt, any of the many existing platforms on the market. "
In this sense, it was stated that if the director of Technology "is not in a position to provide an immediate solution to the request, it is of all evidence that he lacks the necessary suitability to occupy that position ."
The proposal was shared by other directors such as Marina Sánchez Herrero, and therefore they required that the director of Technology " report in writing and within the next 24 hours, the reasons and rationale for their response and attach a copy of that response to the court " Also requested was the "prompt call to a meeting of advisers to analyze and discuss the subject in the depth it deserves."
Congress managed to hold virtual sessions, what prevents the Justice from carrying out a large trial in the same way? The technological supports that the Judicial Power has are provided by the Council of the Magistracy. It was he who last year declared the structural and technological emergency of the sector for a year.
The idea was to have an investment plan that achieves a value enhancement, but 97% of the funds are used to pay wages and the pandemic impacted its own collection channels, which deepened the need for financial bailout by part of the National Treasury.
The biggest challenge now focuses on corruption trials, those that have already been initiated and that have a significant amount of documentary evidence and defendants. Some hearings could be resumed through "cisco jabber and / or Polycom", which is used via VPN, which is just looking to improve the Council of the Magistracy. Every time it is used, they must be informed, since the know-how is from the Technology Division of the CM. Some magistrates opted for Zoom as did the Oral Criminal Economic Court (TOPE) that took up a case against Ricardo Echegaray, "but it only had two defendants and few people connected and there were also some difficulties," they explained to Clarín.
The Council of the Magistracy before the requests formulated by several courts, explained that a platform is being developed (with Arsat) that ensures greater connectivity, as required by large trials, since from the CMN report it emerges "that the conditions ... ”, to perform them with the current system. For this reason, they reported that they are developing a platform for audiences that require complex connectivity such as the case of Cristina Kirchner, or the Money Route K that has 24 defendants, and that the magistrates will be informed "when it is completed to offer it to the courts. "
