Lucia Salinas
11/30/2020 1:39 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 11/30/2020 1:41 PM
Despite the insistent statement of the defenses of several former Kirchnerista officials, to whom the legal advice of Cristina Kirchner was bowed,
the Chamber of Cassation resolved that the Law of the Collaborating Defendant is constitutional
.
The discussion was fought within the framework of the cause known as the Cuadernos de las Bribes, where the main accused is the vice president.
In this way, the status of the 31 regrets in the case was validated and
a hard blow was dealt to strategy K to turn the case over.
The case in which Cristina Kirchner is processed and sent to oral trial as head of an illicit association that was dedicated to the collection of illegal funds, has 31 accused collaborators.
It is, according to the Justice, the biggest "corruption scandal of the last 20 years".
In addition, never a case had so many repentants.
This is precisely what various lawyers who represent former Kirchner officials sought to delegitimize.
The discussion focused first on
how the Law was applied
, since the testimonies were not filmed and recorded.
The articles of the regulation speak of suitable technical means, something that lent itself to various interpretations.
For the prosecutor Carlos Stornelli,
the minutes signed by the accused and their respective lawyers were enough.
Then came the homologation instance before Judge Bonadio, who in twelve months took for proven the sayings of the repentant.
However, the defenses of Julio De Vido and the businessman Gerardo Ferreyra, among others, stressed that the collaboration certificate was not enough to support the sayings of the repentant.
They still suspect
if those confessions were not addressed or under duress.
They went further and argued directly that the law was unconstitutional.
That is why the discussion reached the Chamber of Cassation.
The decision is
a huge blow to the vice president
and her former officials accused of the bribery system that would have functioned regularly under previous K governments.
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