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Elections STEP 2021: judge Walter Bento is screened on a grill in Mendoza

2021-09-12T20:20:58.467Z


The magistrate, prosecuted for bribery and illicit association and electoral judge of the province, had to leave the place after the shouts and the rejection of several clients who treated him as 'corrupt' and 'immoral'.


09/12/2021 17:08

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 09/12/2021 17:10

A bad moment lived the Mendoza federal judge

Walter Bento

who was preparing to have lunch at a grill located in Palmares, a neighborhood of the capital of the province: several clients

repudiated his presence

.

Between shouts and insults, the diners treated him as "corrupt" and "immoral" and finally the magistrate

had to quickly leave the place

.

According to the newspaper

Los Andes

, the escrache took place at 2:25 p.m. this Sunday when about

50 people

were having lunch at a well-known local grill.

There, according to witnesses, the judge, who is being processed for illicit association, had to leave the place after a strong repudiation of several diners who shouted "

corrupt

" and "

immoral

", among other insults.

The federal judge, prosecuted for the crimes of illicit association, bribery, illicit enrichment and money laundering,

supervises the PASO in Mendoza.

Bento is prosecuted for illicit association, bribery, illicit enrichment and money laundering Photo: Orlando Pelichotti / Los Andes

A couple of hours before the repudiation on the grill, Bentos had spoken with the Mendoza media.

He maintained that he is "

absolutely innocent

" and that "I will prove it."

"I am calm, I am absolutely innocent and it is not something that I say, it is something that I will try when we have the possibility of

having judges who read,

" he said in front of the cameras.

And he added: "In no way does it weigh me down to carry out electoral responsibility, on the contrary.

I have been running the elections for 16 years without any inconvenience,

" he said during an interview conducted by Channel 7 of Mendoza.

"I have a team of professionals, it gives me pleasure to work with them. In no way do I have any complications in being here," he said, after being consulted about his role in the middle of the judicial processes he faces.

Regarding the complaints due to the

lack of ballots

from different parties in the schools in Mendoza, Bento assured that "

no formal complaint

reached them

."

Bento, with electoral jurisdiction in the Mendoza district, was prosecuted at the end of last July as the alleged leader of an

illicit association dedicated to the collection of bribes

and also an embargo of more than 327 million pesos was blocked on his assets and those of his wife, Marta Boiza.

So far, the case in which the judge is being processed has 24 defendants, of whom 10 were arrested, and three of them with house arrest.


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