Lucia Salinas
03/15/2021 18:16
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/15/2021 6:16 PM
Three months have elapsed since, unanimously, the Supreme Court of Justice upheld the conviction against Amado Boudou in the Ciccone case, the former calcographic company with the capacity to print paper money.
His house arrest was revoked weeks later, but he still remains under this modality because the Chamber of Cassation must decide whether the former vice president will return to prison or not.
This Wednesday there will be a hearing and
the deadlines will begin to run for the judges to decide where Boudou will serve his sentence.
On December 3, the Court confirmed the decision of the Cassation Chamber, which in turn had endorsed the sentence handed down by the Federal Oral Court 4 (TOF 4) against the former vice president of the Nation.
In August 2018, his judges determined that he was responsible for the crimes of
bribery and negotiations incompatible with the public function
for the purchase of Ciccone.
He thus became the first former vice president to have a conviction for firm corruption.
After that ruling, an extensive judicial journey began to determine where the sentence should be served.
Since April 2020, Boudou has been under house arrest, after the then Penal Execution Judge Daniel Obligado considered that in the midst of the Covid19 pandemic it
was better for his young children to remain at home
.
In addition, the judge argued that the conviction of the Ciccone case was not yet final, a situation that was reversed in December.
When the decision of the Court was known, the execution prosecutor Guillermina García Padín and the prosecutor who intervened in the trial, Marcelo Colombo,
ruled that Boudou should return to jail
and there serve his sentence.
However, the Obligado judge only set the date on which the sentence would be served: June 1, 2024. It was after two requests from prosecutors that finally on December 31, the magistrate revoked the house arrest of Cristina's former vice president. Kirchner.
But Boudou's defense immediately appealed that resolution, arguing that when revoking the house arrest "the extensive references to the specialty provided by the Public Defender who coordinates the Functional Unit for the Assistance of Minors and who intervenes in the process on behalf of "the children of the former vice president.
Thus, they once again invoked the need to take into account the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
That claim reached the Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber, which is why Amado Boudou in the meantime continues with the benefit of home detention.
The judges of Chamber IV of the highest criminal court set a hearing for this Wednesday.
In it, the lawyers will present a brief to support and expand the arguments with which they require the former vice vice president to serve his sentence at home.
After the hearing, the terms will begin to run for judges
Mariano Borinsky, Javier Carbajo and Ángela Ledesma to
decide whether they will accommodate the request of lawyers
Alejandro Rúa and Graciana Peñafort
or will enforce the revocation of the house arrest benefit and
will order that Boudou return to jail.
In the middle there was another decision of the Obligado judge: he reduced the sentence of the former vice by ten months.
With this modification, you will now be able to access the temporary exits and are approaching parole, upon reaching two-thirds of compliance with your accusation.
Since
no one appealed that decision
, it was final at the beginning of the month.
To obtain this reduction in time limits, Obligado took into account a series of workshops carried out by Boudou during his stay in prison: the Personal Computer Database System Programmer course and another on Electrician Fitter, for example.