Claudio Savoia
09/24/2020 - 16:38
Clarín.com
Politics
There is no longer room for potential verbs or Chicanas to avoid calling things by their name:
corruption kills
.
We already count the dead: 52, masked after the shock of the Chapa 16 formation of the Sarmiento train, on February 22, 2012. This Thursday, the Supreme Court of Justice completed with the signature of four of its judges the other part of the sentence: the last cause of those deaths was corruption.
The former Secretary of Transportation Juan Pablo Schiavi is now definitely guilty of the crimes of
havoc and fraud against the State
, for which in 2015 he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison.
The news, which extends to the driver of that convoy, Marcos Córdoba, businessman Claudio Cirigliano and 16 other convicts, comes in the midst of the deep controversy between the government and the Court over the final fate of two judges who, with
the OK from the Council of the Magistracy and then from the highest court
, in 2018 they were transferred from oral courts to the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber, and another that was sent from a TOF of San Martín to another of Comodoro Py.
The three intervened in corruption cases against Cristina Kirchner and dozens of her former officials, or they should: until Kirchnerism pushed him out of there, Judge Germán Castelli was sitting in TOF 7, in charge of judging nothing less than the cause of the Notebooks of the Bribes.
This displacement, which
ignores those administrative and judicial steps
, put the Court under the magnifying glass of the government - which is waiting for a pirouette to run the judges - and of public opinion, which has been expressing its anger at the delays of the court in successive demonstrations streets and also through communications from business organizations and civil society.
Those pressures encountered, growing while the Court continues unabashed the eviction of the judges who investigated corruption K - incidentally, with resolutions that were confirmed - also
widened the old rift between the members of the court
that heads the Judicial Power.
The intrigues between them - clearly reflected in the journalistic coverage of some media -
ended up weakening them all
.
That conclusion became clear this week.
Against this background, the president of the court, Carlos Rosenkrantz, shook the tablecloth on which the Byzantine discussions were spread, and called for next Tuesday an extraordinary agreement to deal with the request for
per saltum
of judges Castelli, Leopoldo Bruglia and Pablo Bertuzzi, who asked the Court to intervene early to prevent his removal.
The court must make a decision in this regard.
If he admits the
per saltum
, he can return the judges to their seats until he finally decides.
If it rejects it, the magistrates will only be able to knock on the door of the Court when the Federal Administrative Court also denies them the protection they requested to stop the displacements.
Anyway, the case judges distanced the watchmen as far as possible from each of the five members of the highest court.
Now, the long-awaited ruling regarding the convictions for the tragedy of Once
again gathered four of the five signatures in the same sense
, ratifying the sentences of 2015 that had already been validated by the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation.
That is the first message.
The other is even more evident: Kirchnerism has many fronts open in the courts, with dozens of serious corruption cases against its former - and some current - officials.
The best help the judges could give all of them in recent years was to
delay their decisions
.
If they just stopped, more bad news could come.