Virginia Messi
11/23/2020 6:01 AM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 11/23/2020 6:01 AM
"We are all equal before the law ... but some seem more equal than others
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"
The phrase, one of those typical court sayings, can generate controversy.
However, in certain cases it seems to be true.
And one of those cases is that of the Ale Clan.
Powerful in Tucumán, the brothers Rubén "La Chancha" Ale (60) and Ángel "El Mono" Ale (65), were sentenced to 10 years in prison on December 18, 2017 as heads of an illicit association that
laundered millions of pesos obtained from a wide range of crimes
: usury, extortion, economic exploitation of the exercise of prostitution and the drug trade.
It was an important cause, unprecedented in the province.
Although some 90 trials were brought against them over the years, never before had a conviction been reached.
And over the decades the Ale did nothing but consolidate their influence.
Rubén, to give an example, went from being a barrabrava of the San Martín de Tucuman club to presiding over that entity.
The sentence came after a trial that lasted 11 months, but the truth is that neither before nor after that ruling (still pending confirmation in the Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber) the Ale did not suffer too much the misfortunes of others prosecuted for similar crimes .
And it is difficult for the panorama to change after so many years.
Just last Wednesday the 18th, "La Chancha" Ale managed to get the federal court that tried him to release him, considering that he had served two-thirds of the sentence.
But before that - according to a complete calculation made by prosecutors Pablo Camuña and Agustin Chit -
"La Chancha" did not spend a day in a cell.
His health problems, the skill of his lawyers and the ever-friendly gaze of the Tucumán judges - constantly reprimanded by their superiors of Cassation - liquefied the sentence imposed in 2017. This, in itself, was half of what he had requested the Financial Investigation Unit (UIF), complainant in the case.
As soon as the cause began, back in the distant 2013, "La Chancha" began a health pilgrimage that took him from the Model Sanatorium to the Avellaneda Hospital (both in Tucumán) to make a short stop at the Ezeiza Prison Hospital and finish another time at home, with house arrest.
He never slept behind bars.
Rubén "La Chancha" Ale, during a transfer of the PSA from Aeroparque to the Ezeiza prison.
"It is true, he was never in a cell but let it be clear that what happened now was that he was released because he had already served two-thirds of the sentence. He is free because it is his right, not because he got a benefit," he said. to
Clarin
historical attorney, Alejandro Biagosch, who said that Ale will ask permission to leave the country, appear before the court every 15 days and, of
course, "good behavior".
Until the new ruling of the Court (which several times in recent years favored the defense requests), "La Chancha" Ale was at home controlled by an electronic bracelet.
"He was always a very sick man. He has Parkinson's, morbid obesity, high blood pressure," emphasizes Biagosch.
In May 2019, the Court had granted him temporary leave to go to work, but prosecutors Camuña and Chit managed to get the Cassation Chamber to revoke this measure precisely by recalling the health argument.
If it was so bad, how could I go to work?
This without taking into account that the workplace was to be the "5 Star" remisería where several of the crimes for which he was convicted in 2017 were committed.
Something similar happens with Ángel "El Mono" Ale.
But since he was arrested long after his younger brother, the parole date is only August 14, 2021.
"El Mono" was imprisoned for two years, four months and nine days,
but after that period he was benefited many times by the Federal Court of Tucumán, which, according to prosecutors, even failed to comply with a recent order from the Chamber of Cassation that had ordered to revoke his semi-release regime.
Ángel and Rubén Ale shared their judicial good fortune when during Easter 2017 (in full oral trial) the court decided to give them house arrest along with 9 more defendants.
And things did not stop "improving" for the Ale when, soon after, the judges ended up releasing them on the grounds that there were no escape risks and too much time had passed since the imposition of preventive prisons.
Prosecutors appealed and again it was Criminal Cassation that turned everything around.
He did so just a few days before the verdict was read.
The Cassation ruling brought the Ale's situation back to "house arrest" and that is how they remained when they were sentenced to 10 years in prison.
But then the battle of his defense began to obtain temporary, labor exits, a regime of semi-freedom.
And in the case of "El Mono" the efforts were successful to scandalous levels.
On December 13, 2019, Ricardo Fanlo (Ángel Ale's lawyer) managed to get the Court to grant him semi-liberty and allow him to make work outings that were actually traveled through half the province to visit their farms, without any type of controller.
The Tucumán prosecutors appealed and finally Cassation (again) revoked the semi-release regime in a ruling dated September 11 last.
But the thing did not end there.
Rubén “la Chancha” Ale, in the middle of the San Martín de Tucumán rostrum, where he began as head of the bar and became president.
On September 30, just a few days after that resolution, the Tucuman court called a hearing with the parties to - it was supposed - to take the benefit from the "Mono".
Instead of doing that he listened to "new" arguments from the defense and ratified the exits.
This led to a new tax appeal filed on October 9.
The claim is still pending and it raises a worrying question: "We legitimately ask ourselves, what is the limit? Will the Court be able, after this resolution is reversed with extremely high probabilities, to call again a hearing previously thought to insist on a tessitura bordering on judicial disobedience? ".
What is said "an open end".
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