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The criticisms of Minister Martín Soria: what are Cristina Kirchner's appeals before the Court that concern the vice president

2021-04-06T14:13:46.995Z


She went to the highest court with 14 extraordinary appeals, in which she asks to annul decisions, carry out new examinations or change the judges who are investigating her.


Lucia Salinas

04/06/2021 10:56

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 04/06/2021 10:56

After criticizing the interim Attorney, Eduardo Casal -head of the prosecutors-, Minister Martín Soria pointed out against the Supreme Court of Justice, which

has the key to alleviate the judicial situation of Cristina Kirchner

, or quite on the contrary, complicate it even more .

Under analysis

there are 14 appeals

filed for the defense of the vice president in the case of the Memorandum with Iran, the case on trial for the alleged directing of public works, the Route of Money K, Los Sauces, operations with the future dollar of the Macrista government and the Notebooks of the Bribes, among other files.

"The changes we must make have a lot to do with the Supreme Court," said Soria during a report published on Sunday in the newspaper Perfil.

The official recalled the speech of President Alberto Fernández at the opening of legislative sessions, where he proposed

possible changes to the operation of the Highest Court

.

This could include

expanding the number of your members.

The Court has in its hands key decisions that concern Cristina Kirchner.

Judicial sources do not separate the criticism from the decisions that must be taken in the Palace.

Specifically,

Carlos Beraldi,

a defense attorney for the vice president in corruption cases in the federal justice system, presented fourteen appeals before the Supreme Court.

Many of these proposals are key to the continuity of some cases.

Public Works in favor of Lázaro Báez

Lazaro Báez and Cristina Kirchner, at the Néstor Kirchner mausoleum.

It is the only one of the eight cases in which Cristina is accused in various acts of corruption, whose oral trial has already begun.

In this case, there

are six appeals that his lawyer presented to the Supreme Court,

seeking that the oral debate does not continue and that the accusations of illicit association and defrauding the State for favoring Báez are annulled.

The first appeal is a complaint against Chamber IV of the Chamber of Cassation that endorsed the decision of the Federal Oral Court 2 (TOF 2) - responsible for the trial -

not to treat in that jurisdiction a civil lawsuit that National Highway

during the macrista management , started against the vice president and the other fifteen defendants in the case.

In addition, Cristina's defense filed an appeal against the decision of the same Chamber of the highest criminal court, which supported the decision of the TOF 2 when it

rejected measures of evidence requested by the vice president

and that according to her lawyer "modified the nature of one of them , entrusting its production to an organism that depends on the Executive Power ".

Another of the central issues that could hinder the progress of the trial is Beraldi's claim before the Court for the decision of the TOF 2 to assess five witness cases among the 51 bids awarded to Lázaro Báez.

Cristina had asked that all contracts be analyzed

.

The cases chosen yielded price

premiums of 120 to 200 million dollars,

with the contrary opinion of the expert appointed by the former president.

There is a proposal linked to this, which is the rejection of the intervention of one of the official experts, Eloy Bona.

Another claim was made before the Court, because the Cassation Chamber did not grant his request that the trial be annulled, since it understood that

the same facts had already been investigated in Santa Cruz

and that it would be res judicata.

There is also a complaint about a claim by the defense attorney who

opposed a set of reports sent by the National Budget Office

 and that, the appeal maintains, no other evidence requested by the vice president was made.

The Willows

Cristina and her children, in the act of their assumption of power.

AFP photo.

In this file, the vice president, along with her sons

Máximo and Florencia Kirchner,

is being processed

for illicit association (with various roles) and money laundering

.

Los Sauces SA is the family real estate.

Before the Court they filed an appeal against the decision of Chamber I of the Chamber of Cassation, which did not grant the defense request that the request to raise the case before the TOF 5 be annulled. 


Notebooks of the Bribes

The case deals with a circuit of illegal charges made by former officials of the defunct Ministry of Planning, to state contractors in three specific areas: Public Works, Energy and Transportation.

Cristina Kirchner is prosecuted and sent to trial as head of that illicit association.

The case was instructed by the late Judge

Claudio Bonadio

.

The Court received a claim against the Chamber of Cassation that

did not accommodate the request to remove the magistrate from the file.

Another appeal with the same request, which was to remove Bonadio, was presented in the context of a case that emerged from the Cuadernos file.

This is the case by an autograph letter from General San Martín to Bernardo de O'Higgins (dated December 26, 1835) and a police record of Hipólito Yrigoyen, both kidnapped during a raid on the former President's house in El Calafate .

Posterization of public works

It is a file related to the case of the Notebooks and that was also submitted to oral proceedings.

The appeal before the Court is against the decision of Chamber III of the Chamber of Cassation, which partially confirmed the extension of the prosecution of Cristina Kirchner decreed in the main cause, where she

was held responsible for 175 cases of passive bribery, as co-author

, all of them in real contest. 

Pact with Iran

The prosecutor in the AMIA case, Alberto Nisman.

Photo: Mario Quinteros.


The first is a complaint appeal filed by the defense of Cristina Kirchner

against the decision that rejected the dismissal of Judge Juan Carlos Gemignani

.

In the case, the complaint made by the late prosecutor Alberto Nisman for the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran is being investigated.

In that file, the vice president was sent to oral trial for the crime of

aggravated cover

-

up

.

His lawyer already anticipated that he

will request the annulment of the trial

.

The second appeal was filed jointly with Oscar Parrilli's lawyer, against the decision of Chamber IV of the Cassation Chamber that gave rise to the appeal that made the complaint through which

Judge Sabrina Namer was set aside.

of the cause.

Money Route K

It is the investigation in which Lázaro Báez - Cristina Kirchner's former business partner - was sentenced to twelve years for money laundering.

The appeal filed by the lawyer Beraldi was against the decision of Chamber IV of the Cassation Chamber, which rejected a proposal in which it was decided that said chamber, made up of judges

Mariano Borinsky, Gustavo Hornos and Javier Carbajo

, will continue to intervene in all what is related to the file.

The vice president is charged with money laundering, but with a lack of merit.

Judge

Sebastián Casanello considered that there is no evidence yet to charge her.

Future Dollar during Macrista management

This is a complaint appeal filed by Cristina in her capacity as plaintiff, against the decision of Chamber I of the Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber, which

did not give rise to the claim for the dismissal in favor of Federico Sturzenegger

.

In the case, the former president of the Central Bank was investigated, among others, for alleged irregularities in the handling of future dollar purchase contracts at the beginning of the government of Mauricio Macri.

Source: clarin

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