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Judicial scandal in San Isidro: the jury against Claudio Scapolan, with a defined date and list of 'notable' witnesses

2023-02-28T13:46:35.331Z


It will be in La Plata on March 28. Judges, prosecutors, police and drug traffickers will testify in the case against the suspended prosecutor of San Isidro, accused of arming operations and corruption.


The federal prosecutor of San Isidro Fernando Domínguez, the federal judge of San Isidro Sandra Arroyo Salgado, Room I of the Federal Chamber of San Martín in full (its three judges), exonerated police officers, drug traffickers victims of armed proceedings, witnesses of reserved identity .

The list has fifty names.

All will be summoned as witnesses in the trial jury against the suspended prosecutor of San Isidro Claudio Scapolan (51), for years responsible for the Complex Crimes Prosecutor's Office of that jurisdiction and accused of serious acts of corruption.

The appointment will be next Tuesday, March 28, at 9 in the morning in the Annex of the Buenos Aires Senate, in the city of La Plata.

This was determined by the Jury for the Prosecution of Magistrates and Officials of the Province of Buenos Aires in a resolution signed on February 23.

The federal judge of San Isidro Sandra Arroyo Salgado.

The decision was

almost unanimous

.

Only legislator Sofía Vannelli (Frente de Todos) voted in dissent, a reference to massismo, a sector from which Scapolan and his former boss, former attorney general Julio Novo, always received support.

Especially in the times when Sergio Massa was mayor of Tigre.

Although for the moment the accusations in the Justice against Scapolan were (via the Chamber) reduced to a firm prosecution for "

falsification of a public instrument

", the jury arrives accused of the conducts for which at the time the judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado asked that they remove him they went to stop him.

In the jury, Scapolan is identified as

the head of a gang

made up of police officers, court officials and lawyers dedicated to extortion, the arming of operatives and the resale of drugs seized in anti-drug proceedings.

The attorney of the Buenos Aires Court, Julio Conte Grand, accuses him of all this, based on the evidence gathered in a file that originally began in 2016 with a complaint from the deputy Elisa "Lilita" Carrió.

Added to this denunciation - which slept for years - was the investigation carried out by the federal prosecutor of San Isidro Fernando Domínguez and Judge Arroyo Salgado, who finally - due to a recusal - was removed from the case by decision of Chamber I.

Julio Conte Grand, Buenos Aires attorney.

Long way

In December of last year, the Jury for the Prosecution of Officials and Magistrates of the Province of Buenos Aires - chaired by Judge Ana María Bourimborde - decided to

suspend Scapolan and start the path towards his political trial

.


Since then, the prosecutor has been automatically left with a garnishment of 40 percent of his salary.

But more importantly: he missed the opportunity to resign from his position to stop his possible removal.

The removal resolution of prosecutor Claudio Scapolan.

Since the criminal proceedings against him began, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, 32 people - including drug traffickers, lawyers and police officers - have been

prosecuted

and are currently waiting for the Federal Oral Court No. 1 of San Isidro to set a date for an oral and public trial.

Scapolan's fate was zigzagging and today it seems more complicated by the jury than by the criminal case promoted by the federal prosecutor Domínguez and that had Arroyo Salgado as an instructor, until his removal by order of the Federal Court of Appeals of San Martín.

Arroyo Salgado prosecuted Scapolan as head of a gang of lawyers and police officers who set up cases, extorted drug traffickers and stole cocaine from proceedings.

But his defense appealed and in June 2022 Room I of the Federal Chamber of San Martín turned everything around and only confirmed a tiny part of what was resolved by the judge.

Chamber members Marcelo Fernández, Marcos Morán and Juan Pablo Salas - now summoned as witnesses in the jury - confirmed the charge of "

falsifying a public instrument

" in the Anacona case.

In other words, they said that for them it is true that Scapolan knew that the anti-drug operation "

Leones Blancos

" (2013, "Anacona" is the name of the cause) had not started and developed as the Police said, and even so he confirmed it.

But for Room I it is not proven that he participated in the maneuvers in which it is suspected that, of the ton that had been kidnapped,

Buenos Aires policemen kept half to sell it on the Atlantic Coast

.

In the resolution, the Chamber linked him (albeit very lukewarmly) to the "Leones Blancos" case, but ruled that he lacked merit in the most serious accusation: head of an illegal association.

And he maintained that there was not enough evidence to incriminate him in two cases (Bustamante and Santellán) for which many police officers had already been prosecuted and he had also arrived at the Chamber in the same condition.

Prosecutor Claudio Scapolan (left), during an operation against a gang that stole wheels in San Isidro.

A striking fact is that the jury's witness list also includes the members of the Federal Oral Court No. 5 of San Martín and the trial prosecutor who intervened in the investigated cases and ordered an investigation into the irregularities.

Each of the more than 50 witnesses called (at the request of the prosecution but also of the defense) promises to make people talk.

We will have to be patient.

After six years, there are only a few weeks left.

EMJ

look also

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Source: clarin

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