Lucia Salinas
01/01/2021 6:31 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 01/01/2021 6:31 AM
The first year of Alberto Fernández's government, he produced an equation that did not convince Cristina Kirchner.
Her judicial front did not achieve the improvements that she expects and everything indicates that during 2021, an electoral year, there will be judicial decisions that can be added to that range of prosecutions, oral trials and files that indicate her as
the main accused of money laundering operations. money and corruption schemes.
At the same time, the progress of some cases and trials
can also complicate former officials such
as Julio De Vido, Roberto Baratta and José López and close businessmen such as Lázaro Báez, Cristóbal López.
"In February they will go for Cristina," said Amado Boudou after hearing the decision of the criminal execution judge, Daniel Obligado, which led to a repeated claim by prosecutors Guillermina García Padín and Marcelo Colombo: that the benefit of house arrest and return to jail to serve the sentence for corruption, confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice.
The former vice president's proposal only seeks to feed something that the vice president installed in December 2019 -before she was sworn into office- when she declared in the trial for the alleged directing of public works in favor of Lázaro Báez.
In that investigation, she maintained that
all the legal proceedings against her responded to lawfare,
that is, to political persecution to harm her as a leader.
Julio De Vido during the trial for public works, in which Cristina Kirchner and Lázaro Báez are also accused.
All this backdrop will accompany the election year in which other decisions will be put into play in Comodoro Py.
After the summer judicial fair,
on February 10, there will be news in a key trial: the sentence will be heard against Lázaro Báez,
Cristina Kirchner's former business partner accused of having the money for US $ 60 million.
That file does not include the vice president, but
has as a precedent offense the road contracts
that are the ones that brought her to the dock for the first time in the Highways trial.
Justice maintains that this money is the one that the owner of the Austral Group turned over to laundering operations, while maintaining a business relationship with the Kirchners: a condominium land, sale of real estate, hotel management, rental of properties, construction of buildings , among others.
Cristina Kirchner in the first hearing of the trial for corruption in public works.
But also, as Clarín already said, during the first semester the Federal Oral Court 8 (TOF 8) seeks to start the trial that has Cristina accused of covering up the AMIA attack by signing the Pact with Iran.
The case began with
the complaint of the late prosecutor Alberto Nisman.
On the other hand, TOF 5, which automatically renews the interventions on the Kirchner family companies - all suspected of having been used to launder funds -, seeks to initiate the trial that will take Máximo and Florencia Kirchner, along with their mother, to the bench of the accused for the first time.
The estimated starting date of the case known as Hotesur and Los Sauces
is at the end of the second semester.
Everything remains to be seen, because they await the results of an accounting expertise that will be decisive, and that could be delivered in mid-2021.
Lazaro Baez will be sentenced in February in the cause of the rural money K. FotoMaxi Failla.
Can there be other measures?
With the ratification of the Chamber of Cassation of the Repentant Law and the endorsement of the 31 accused collaborators in the Cuadernos de las Bribes case,
the TOF 7 has a free hand to advance in the previous instances until setting a start date for the oral trial.
It is also, the vice president, the main defendant.
Not only the cases reach Cristina Kirchner.
Julio De Vido accumulated half a dozen cases raised to oral proceedings
ranging from Skanska, the collection of bribes from the Brazilian Odebrecht, the Cuadernos case, as well as the fraudulent operations linked to the Río Turbio coal mine (Santa Cruz).
Many of these processes could gain momentum during the coming year.
Likewise,
in full development is the trial against Cristóbal López, Fabián de Sousa and Ricardo Echegaray,
where the fraud of the State is investigated which, according to the imputation, allowed the firm Oil Combustibles SA, not to pay the Tax on Tax Transfers to Fuels (ITC), during the last government of Cristina Kirchner.
With these funds, the justice maintains, they expanded the holding company and generated a multimillion-dollar debt with the treasury.
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