Lucia Salinas
03/14/2021 16:15
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/14/2021 16:15
The Criminal Cassation Chamber became an obsession for Vice President Cristina Kirchner.
For several weeks, the ruling party deployed an advance against part of its members through complaints and accusations.
Those annoyances, which included among others the complaint against the president of the court Gustavo Hornos for his meetings with Mauricio Macri and the complaint against judge Juan Carlos Geminiani for sexist messages, aim to wear down the Chamber that has been failing in an adverse way for the interests Kirchnerism.
In addition, Cassation has to resolve on a dozen cases involving the vice president and former officials and leaders K.
Cristina's criticisms against the court are focused there, understand several judges and prosecutors of the Retirement courts, "because it is the body that has superintendence over the Oral Courts", that is, it is responsible for resolving the claims and complaints about the resolved in the Courts that carry out the trials or that are about to initiate them.
On the other hand, the Chamber is responsible for confirming or not the sentences handed down in the trials.
The vice president has eight cases brought to oral trial, where she was accused of different acts of corruption: the file for the operations with Future Dollar, the cause for the signing of the Pact with Iran, the alleged address in public works to Lázaro Báez , the Hotesur and Los Sauces cases and the investigation known as the Cuadernos de las Coimas, among other files.
At some point, when it is played in those files, Cassation could intervene.
But in addition to these causes, there are at least a dozen investigations on which they must pronounce in various instances, the Cassation rooms and that involve the vice president as part of her former cabinet.
For example, Chamber IV made up of judges Mariano Borinsky, Javier Carbajo and Ángela Ledesma must decide whether Amado Boudou returns to prison or not to serve the sentence that the Court confirmed on December 3.
When the Ciccone II case advances in the oral debate (the route of money that allowed the purchase of the former calcographic is being investigated), that same room is the one that must intervene.
That same court shall pronounce
on the twelve-year sentence for money laundering against Lázaro Báez known as the Ruta del Dinero K.
It is precisely, Room IV is also the one that intervenes in the case of the alleged directing of public works,
the only trial that Cristina Kirchner has been developing for more than a year and a half.
All the resources so that the oral debate does not continue or the different claims, are resolved in the Cassation.
On the other hand, waiting for the Court to set a starting date, the Cassation also intervenes regarding
the case for the Pact with Iran, where the vice president is prosecuted for aggravated cover-up
of the attack against the headquarters of the AMIA by the memorandum of understanding .
This case began with the complaint of the late prosecutor Alberto Nisman.
There are other files on which the Cassation Chamber must issue: the convictions against Milagro Sala, the case for illicit enrichment against Julio De Vido, as well as the case known as Shared Dreams that involves Hebe de Bonafini and the Schoklender brothers for embezzlement in public works.
It was the highest criminal court that recently ordered that the case for alleged espionage against the Macrista government that was based in Lomas de Zamora, be processed in Comodoro Py, something that Kirchnerism opposed with various proposals.
Room I, where Cristina Kirchner made her presentation, is the one that intervenes in the cause of the Future Dollar and in two cases of great relevance for the vice president,
Los Sauces and Hotesur.
There, Máximo and Florencia Kirchner are being processed for money
laundering.
The TOF 5 estimates that in the second stage of the year they could set a start date for the trial.
Other cases of corruption during the Kirchnerist government must be resolved in Chamber III, such as the conviction against Ricardo Jaime in the Tragedy of Once, the Odebrecht case where Julio De Vido, Roberto Baratta, Daniel Cameron, among others, are accused of having collected bribes from the Brazilian giant in exchange for guaranteeing millionaire works.
There are other cases.
Room II, for example, must rule on the conviction for illicit enrichment against José López, the case in which the bags with 9 million dollars that he sought to hide in the General Rodríguez convent were investigated.
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