Prosecutor Diego Luciani
appealed this Monday the conviction against Cristina Kirchner in the Highway case
.
In the appeal, he reiterated that the vice president
should also be charged as the head of an illegal association
in addition to the crime I attributed, which is fraudulent administration.
"We want to make it clear in this section that the joint and harmonious analysis of the evidence that this Public Prosecutor's Office exhibited during 9 days of pleading and that was valued by the Court in its sentence makes this last procedural piece categorical, irrefutable and
overwhelming
for the claims of the convicted persons and their defenders", the prosecutor Luciani maintains in his first section.
On December 6, the Federal Oral Court 2 (TOF 2) sentenced Cristina Kirchner for fraudulent administration to the detriment of the public administration, with a
sentence of six years in prison.
The prosecution had asked for twelve years, understanding that there were elements of her to find her responsible for leading an illegal association.
Only Judge Andrés Basso supported this criterion.
In this regard, the prosecutor Luciani in the appeal maintained: "The forceful sentence of the Court clearly showed
the most serious act of corruption in the history
of our country since the advent of democracy."
This point was highlighted with the understanding that it is, in the words of the prosecutor, a "painful situation" because "unfortunately, it is an indisputable reality."
The foundations of the sentence that were known in February exposed, with the degree of certainty that this stage requires, that, between 2003 and 2015, an authentic illegal association operated within the State that created, designed, projected and executed a systematic plan of corruption.
For the Public Prosecutor's Office, it was one of the "most extraordinary corruption matrices that have developed in the country, due to its unusual characteristics, its complexity and its extension over time thanks to the decision of those who occupied the highest hierarchies of the National Executive Branch.
This Monday, Cristina's lawyer, Carlos Beraldi, also presented his appeal before the Federal Cassation, but in the opposite direction to that demanded by the prosecutor:
the vice claims to be acquitted.
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