Lucia Salinas
04/13/2021 14:02
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 04/13/2021 2:09 PM
The Chamber of Cassation resolved that
the trial against Cristina Kirchner for alleged crimes in operations with the Future Dollar should not be carried out
.
The judges granted the vice president's request for dismissal and annulment of the case.
This was the first one that brought him an accusation of corruption in the Courts of Comodoro Py when he left the Casa Rosada in 2015. In this way,
the dismissal
for fraudulent administration
was issued
against the former president, Axel Kicillof, Alejandro Vanoli and the others. accused.
On March 4, for more than fifty minutes and with a harsh speech that included a strong political defense, the vice president presented by videoconference before the Cassation the reasons why she
wanted to annul that file
.
In her defense, with which she was seeking dismissal, she accused the Judiciary of being
"a rotten and perverse system"
, she again spoke of
lawfare
to defend
herself
against the causes of corruption in which she is accused and pointed against Mauricio Macri and the media Communication.
That hearing responded to a procedure typical of the complaint instances that reach the Federal Chamber of Cassation.
Once the presentation of the vice president had concluded, the terms began to run for the judges
Daniel Petrone, Diego Barroetaveña
and the magistrate
Ana María Figueroa to
decide whether to grant the request for dismissal and annulment of the oral trial, or if they endorsed the Court that, following the criteria of the prosecutor
Diego Velasco
, ordered to initiate the oral debate.
Chamber I of the highest criminal court finally decided not to make room for the proposal of the representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office, and understood that
the trial should not be carried out since they made room for the extraordinary appeals presented by the vice president, Axel Kicillof, Alejandro Vanoli, among others .
The decision adopted by the magistrates was to dismiss Cristina Kirchner and the other defendants in the file known as Future Dollar.
During the investigation of the case, it had been confirmed that Cristina and her then Minister of the Economy, Axel Kicillof, along with other former officials,
"committed a huge fraud against public assets," which would have cost the State "55 billion pesos. "
.
The crime charged is that of
fraudulent administration.
he file was instructed by the late judge Claudio Bonadio and the prosecutor Eduardo Taiano.
At that time, it was pointed out that the loss for the Central Bank was 54,921,788,702.40 pesos, and that "the fraud against the public administration was the result of the agreement and coordination of the highest officials of the State, who from their positions arbitrated the measures necessary for its achievement ".
But these accusations were annulled after the ruling of the Chamber of Cassation, where the extraordinary appeal of the parties was made.
For Cristina Kirchner it is
a "political persecution"
, as she is accused of
"State measures that cannot be prosecuted
.
"
Then, before the judges of Chamber I, he held that the file is a leading case, not only on the issue of
lawfare
, but also on the "interference and manipulation of the Judicial Power in electoral processes and in politics in general in the Republic Argentina".
The president endorsed this criterion before the legislative assembly on March 1, when he reiterated the need for judicial reform: "we are witnessing instant media convictions, we suffer the discretion of judges in inexplicable delays and there is manipulation of jurisdictional decisions according to political interests ", he claimed.