03/02/2021 10:58 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/02/2021 10:58
The Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber authorized the live broadcast of the hearing called for Thursday in the future dollar case, but denied a claim by Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to allow her to attend court in person.
"With regard to the live transmission of the hearing by the journalistic media that require it, and in order to guarantee the publicity of the event, it corresponds to accommodate the request made", decided the president of Chamber I of Cassation, Daniel Petrone, in the resolution.
Regarding the request of the Vice President's lawyer, Carlos Beraldi, for the hearing to be held in person in Comodoro Py 2002, the Court confirmed that it will be done
"virtually and remotely" as
a result of the "health emergency declared before the advance of the coronavirus ".
"This has been the modality that this House followed since the beginning of the pandemic, thus allowing the exercise of the right of defense of the parties in this context," the resolution added.
The defense of the Vice President had demanded that the hearing be in person and broadcast publicly.
The hearing prior to resolving requests for dismissal in the case due to
non-existence of a crime
is scheduled for next Thursday at 10:30, "remotely and virtually."
The judges of Chamber I of the highest federal criminal court will listen to the former president and the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof, who ask to be dismissed in the case that has already been sent to oral trial.
The former director of the Central Bank Alejandro Vanoli and his former deputy director (and today in charge of the BCRA) Miguel Angel Pesce, who are on trial, also asked to be present for the process.
The former president had asked to attend the hearing.
Photo: Mauricio NIevas.
"I reiterate the request that the hearing that will take place on March 4 be carried out in person, at least with respect to the people who request it, as is the case of the defense of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner", Beraldi had raised in the letter.
"If the act is not carried out in person,
my part will not intervene in the diligence.
This is so, since otherwise it would matter to consent to one more of the innumerable violations of the right to defense in court that already took place in this shameful process ", he pointed.
Given this,
the former president could not appear
at the hearing on Thursday.
Cristina Kirchner and Kicillof (Minister of Economy at the time of the events investigated) requested their dismissal when the Federal Oral Court (TOF) 1 ratified last year that the oral trial would take place.
Their defenses argued that the expertises carried out when the case reached TOF 1 determined that the future dollar operation was an ideal instrument as a "control tool for the monetary and exchange stability of the country" and that there was no harm to the national State, but rather on the contrary, there were profits.
After various resolutions, the case came through appeals to Cassation, which summoned the parties to a preliminary hearing for March 1, a date that coincided with the opening of ordinary sessions in the National Congress and in the Legislative Assembly of the Buenos Aires province.
Chamber I of Cassation, finally, modified the call date for next Thursday.
The case was initiated by a complaint by PRO deputies in October 2015, who argued that between August and November 2015 the Central Bank closed "future dollar" contracts with which alleged anomalous maneuvers were executed.
The late judge Claudio Bonadio considered that there was a crime and prosecuted Cristina Kirchner, Kicillof and former directors of the Central Bank for allegedly unfaithful administration to the detriment of the public administration.
In August of last year, the results of the 82-page expert report made by the Corps of Experts of the Court that had commissioned TOF 1 were known: in that expert opinion, signed by Carlos Alberto Campodónico, Alejandro del Acebo and Stella Maris Castaño, plus the participation of expert witnesses, it was concluded that the future dollar operation in 2015 did not cause damage to the State.
With information from Télam.
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