03/10/2021 18:01
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 03/10/2021 18:01
Alejandro Slokar is a fan of Independiente, wrote a treaty with his teacher Eugenio Zaffaroni, was an official of Néstor Kirchner and is vice president of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation, the highest court of the Nation after the Court.
Founder of
Legitimate Justice
, he is the most exalted of the Kirchner judges.
He barely has above the members of the Court and, only formally, the President of Cassation, against whom he attacked hard last week.
He accuses Gustavo Hornos of having gone to see Macri at the Casa Rosada during his tenure.
Something inappropriate for a judge, who
must be independent and appear so
, as Slokar reproached Hornos, by zooming and shouting.
If Hornos leaves the presidency of Cassation, he would succeed him,
the judge of Cristina Kirchner with the highest position.
The recommendation to judges to maintain only formal contact with executive officials is an international ethical standard.
Slokar is correct, if it weren't for an almost imperceptible beam in one's own eye.
A secret beam.
As a judge of Cassation, Slokar maintained
24 communications
in October 2014 alone with the spy Fernando Pocino, Cristina's confidant and at that time the top ultrak operative official of the SIDE.
They were not formal contacts - they spoke through a line that Pocino had registered
in the name of a woman
- or linked to cases in process: a judge of Cassation does not instruct cases, like a judge of first instance, nor does he direct additional instructions, like a judge of oral court.
There would be no "work" reason for a Cassation chambermaid to speak to a spy director so many times, and so often, on a secret phone.
The calls are detailed in a Federal Police report accessed by
Clarín
.
They are crosses ordered by the then prosecutor Viviana Fein during the months before and after Alberto Nisman's death, which occurred on January 18, 2015.
Pocino was the one who led the spy groups in the street on the day that ended with the discovery of Nisman dead.
Slokar had
four other calls
to Pocino's "secret" phone in December 2014 and
two more
in February 2015.
Thirty in all.
On December 19, he also communicated with Juan Martín Mena, perhaps to congratulate him: Mena, who had been his advisor in the Ministry of Justice, assumed that day as second head of the SIDE.
From that moment, Pocino began reporting to him.
Mena is today the second of Justice, where Minister Losardo spends her final hours, and
the true operative head of the Ministry
.
In the replacement rumors, in addition to Mena and other names, Martín Soria, the deputy who led the onslaught against Hornos, was picked up by Slokar.
What happened when Slokar was talking frantically with the spy Pocino, at the end of 2014?
Three things: Slokar wanted to preside over Cassation (he lost against his partner Ana María Figueroa), to run to his colleague José María Cabral for
"formal issues"
and apparently superfluous, and the Chamber was preparing to
receive the cases against Amado Boudou, Julio De Vido and Ricardo Jaime
.
In February 2015, the case of the Pact with Iran that Nisman had investigated -
with Cristina as the main defendant
-
entered Slokar's court directly
, and Slokar, challenged, had to be replaced by Cabral,
just the judge whom he
had wanted to remove three months earlier, while he was talking to Pocino's hidden phone
.
Those contacts of Slokar with the spy while the cases against K officials were advancing take on special relevance these days, when
Cristina's offensive against Justice intensifies
and the Legal and Technical Secretary, Vilma Ibarra, admits that the information accumulated in the SIDE is a habitual practice to squeeze judges:
"Alberto could use AFI files and he doesn't ..."
, he was sincere last week.