Lázaro Báez was granted house arrest

Lucia Salinas

07/09/2020 - 9:44

• Clarín.com

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After four and a half years, Lázaro Báez will leave the Ezeiza Prison.

He will continue to be deprived of his liberty but under the modality of house arrest, after requesting before the Chamber of Cassation the morigeration, stating that he cannot face the bond of 386 million pesos that the Federal Oral Court 4 (TOF 4) had set for him who is trying him for money laundering, so that his release is effective.

Room IV of the Highest Criminal Court decided to grant him the benefit of arrest in one of his homes.

When the Chamber of Cassation ordered to reduce the royal bond, it took into account that in two cases for laundering related to "the route of money K", Báez has a firm release from prison and also a firm house arrest -since March of this year- "That it was granted to the accused for health reasons and for the long time he has been detained in preventive detention - 4 years and 4 months in preventive detention."

The TOF 4 judges had held that Báez had to pay a bond of 632.5 million pesos to leave jail.

This resulted in a defense claim, which said that the assets of businessman K - valued at US $ 205 million - was seized and did not have funds to face the surety.

That is why

, which is the figure that the Chamber of Cassation ended up ordering the TOF 4 that I said as bond.

But faced with this new figure, the defense of Lázaro Báez insisted that he did not have funds to face the guarantee of 386 million pesos, since all his assets are protected in various court cases.

So, he insisted that he be granted house arrest without paying any bail.

In its latest resolution, TOF 4 argued that the moderation of the detention was already rejected in a resolution of August 4 and that the same criterion was upheld, something that the lawyers of businessman K will appeal.

Once again, it was Chamber IV of the Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber that ruled on the situation, and

In order to be released from prison, you must pay the posted bond.

But with the resolution of the chambermaids, he will be able to continue serving his preventive detention at the address set before the court.

The situation regarding the freedom of the former business partner of the vice president is particular.

The businessman had three different statements regarding his freedom, in the three causes that kept him in custody.

In the main file, La Ruta del Dinero K, has since December 2019 with a cessation of arrest;

However, in the case of the purchase of a field in Uruguay (El Entrevero), in March he was granted house arrest, but he was still in jail for a third file -the firm M & P-, where he was held in preventive detention.

For this reason, in the M&P case -a company supposedly used to launder 200 million pesos-, the release was issued under real security, the sum was a reason for complaint by the defense, which argued that it was "impossible to comply" with the be an "exorbitant" sum.

Why can't billionaire Báez pay the surety?

Although the owner of Austral Construcciones has 1,412 properties valued at US $ 205 million, all his assets are seized in seven cases found in Comodoro Py.

The embargoes exceed 12,000 million pesos.

No secured asset can be applied to a real surety.

Nor does he find any former partner who can come out as his guarantor and deposit the money demanded by justice.

At this point another debate arises.

If Báez manages to pay this figure, he must explain to the Justice how he obtained it, since

, since all the companies are managed by auditors.

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