12/29/2020 19:08
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/29/2020 19:08
Prosecutors Marcelo Colombo and Guillermina García Padín asked Judge Daniel Obligado on Tuesday to revoke the house arrest of former Vice President Amado Boudou and order him to serve a
sentence of five years and ten months in prison.
The sentence, for having remained with the Ciccone printing company that manufactured paper money,
was final more than 20 days ago
after a ruling by the Supreme Court.
Forced, the same judge who ordered him to comply with house arrest in the midst of the pandemic, has been delaying the decision.
In fact, it is the second time that he has consulted the prosecutors.
The previous one, they had told him the same thing: that the former vice must serve his sentence in prison.
In the ruling, prosecutors say that Boudou
"is in good health"
and considered that the protection of his twin children is guaranteed.
Boudou's defense had argued that he should stay at home in harmony with the juvenile counselor involved in the case.
They said that the higher welfare of their two children was at stake.
But prosecutors flatly rejected the argument, resorting to detailing what they described as "a comfortable financial situation" for Boudou and his ties.
"The family group has economic income from the rent of an apartment in Boudou, from the rent of an apartment owned by Mrs. García de la Fuente in Mexico, from the salary of the one appointed as advisor in the Senate, from the pension she receives. Boudou as vice president of the Nation, savings, and economic support from relatives and colleagues in politics, "they described.
And in that line, the prosecutors added that the environment gives them "a more than adequate habitat, the certain possibility because this has already happened in the past of having additional help in addition to the mother herself for the care of the twins, schooling in progress. and health care through private coverage, are characteristics that are projected as sufficient to guarantee the rights of safety, protection, care, health and education necessary for the well-being and development of these children together with their mother, even in the case that his father was imprisoned again. "
Since September, prosecutors added, Boudou has been staying in a house in the town of Avellaneda "that has four floors, a garden, a swimming pool, a barbecue area, five bedrooms and its own elevator."
After the prosecutors' response,
the Obligado judge is once again in a position to decide whether Boudou should serve his final sentence at home, or should return to the Ezeiza prison
.
The magistrate has been delaying the definition and the suspicion is that he would seek to start the fair so that another judge has to define.
As surrogate, Obligado will leave office on January 31 when the judicial fair ends and he will no longer have to resolve Boudou's situation.
Prosecutors also described that
the family is assisted by a domestic worker
to care for the children and that Boudou was visited by his wife when he was in jail on a weekly basis and brought their children.
The prosecutors also argued that the Court's ruling
only remains to comply with what was ordered by the Oral Court that tried him
.
"The criminal action and the state of innocence of the person involved in the criminal justice system have outgrown, only the controller of the sentence remains."
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