Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner was ordered to serve 12 years in prison, as well as life ineligibility, in Buenos Aires on Monday in a trial for alleged corruption, one of several ongoing proceedings against the former head of the State and figure of the Argentinian left.
Cristina Kirchner, 69, was tried remotely in a case of alleged fraudulent award of public contracts in her political stronghold in the province of Santa Cruz, in Patagonia (south), when she was head of state (2007-2015).
Vice-president and president of the Senate, she currently enjoys immunity.