Each one of the thousand six hundred and sixteen pages in which the grounds of the Federal Oral Court 2 are displayed to justify the conviction of
Cristina Kirchner
, her partner
Lázaro Báez,
her employee
José López
and former national and provincial officials for corruption in public works
began to be scrutinized upside down
by the vice team of lawyers, led by Carlos Beraldi.
It will be difficult for them
to find cracks
to fight in the appeal of the sentence before the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation.
The Criminal Procedure Code marks the way: as of today, the convicted have
seven business days
to appear before the Cassation with the appeals that seek to discuss the sentence.
Prosecutor
Diego Luciani
and his team have already announced that they are going to do it too.
This procedure can only be activated now, because what is being discussed is not the amount of a sentence -both in terms of years in prison and in return of money or embargoes, for example- but
the reasons and arguments that the judges considered
to later establish those penalties. .
The judicial bureaucracy will first announce that
Chamber IV of the Federal Cassation
will review the TOF2 sentence, and then the first objections will arrive, delaying the entire procedure.
For example, Dr. Beraldi has already anticipated that
he will challenge judge Mariano Borinsky,
whom he denounced for his visits to Quinta de Olivos during the presidency of
Mauricio Macri
.
Twists of fate: Borinsky
gave Cristina a sip of water in the desert
, with his vote in the case of laundering with
the Money Route K.
The chamberlain -with several resolutions that upset Kirchnerism in recent years-
unlinked the mega-fraud in public works,
explained this Thursday with details such as the origin of the money that Lázaro Báez laundered in Switzerland and other destinations.
Why would that make the vice president smile?
Because the Cassation must also resolve whether to reopen the file for laundering with the companies
Hotesur and Los Sauces
, twinned to the Highway file -also to the Money Route K- like two twins in the womb. If the corruption in the Santa Cruz contracts did not cause the money that Lázaro later laundered, it is legitimate for Cristina to hope that they
do not recognize that connection for her either.
The evidence, copious,
says otherwise
.
This same Thursday, judges Giménez Uriburu, Gorini and Basso said and reiterated in several sections of their foundations that the money that was stolen from the State with Austral Construcciones ended up in the pockets of Báez and also of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner
.
Kryptonite for the vice.
Let's continue with the diligence of the appeals: once the integration of Chamber IV of Cassation for this case is consolidated, the court must set
hearings to hear the
expanded arguments of the defenses and the prosecution.
Only then will it begin to analyze the appealed sentence to decide if it confirms, rejects or modifies any term of that resolution.
In the fantasy of the books, there are twenty business days to do so.
In the real world
, there is no way that will happen this year.
As we said, the forcefulness and detail of the foundations of TOF 2 will defy the capacity and imagination of Dr. Beraldi to the extreme, who
would have to counterargue with the same solidity
to feed any hope.
It is very difficult, and even more so with the sanata of
lawfare
and political persecution off the table.
Prosecutor Luciani also has a challenge: that Judge Basso's minority vision regarding Cristina's responsibility as
head of an illegal association
becomes a majority in the Cassation.
Judges Rodríguez Uriburu and Gorini indicated that the manifest will to commit different crimes was not detected, and that if the subsequent laundering were taken into account, in Hotesur and Vialidad only Cristina and Lázaro are jointly accused: to prove an illegal association
, at least three people.
In truth, there is a third person who was also accused in both proceedings, but who could not be tried:
Néstor Kirchner
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How was the criminal plan of Cristina Kirchner and Lázaro Báez to steal millions of dollars from the State, according to the TOF 2
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