Federal judge Marcelo Martínez De Giorgi prohibited three defendants in the case investigating the
Federal Revolution
group from approaching less than 200 meters from the National Congress, the Patria Institute and the home of former vice president
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
, and ordered that they be monitored with electronic anklets.
The prohibition of approach fell on
Jonathan Morel, Leonardo Sosa and Gastón Guerra
and was ordered following a request from the lawyers of the former president, the plaintiff in the case.
The representatives of the former vice president, José Manuel Ubeira and Marcos Aldazábal, also reiterated a proposal to call the businesswoman
Rosana Caputo
, sister of Luis Caputo, current Minister of Economy, for an investigative statement regarding the possible financing of the Federal Revolution.
To this last request, the judge responded with a "stay present" while waiting for evidentiary measures still in process.
In relation to the requests for the security of the former president, the magistrate granted the claim based on "the fears revealed."
In this regard, it prohibited the accused Morel, Sosa and Guerra from "approaching less than 200 meters from the National Congress, the Patria Institute and the home of Mrs. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her relatives,
under threat of revoking the timely release granted
," warned Martínez De Giorgi.
"At the same time, their movements must be tracked for the sole and exclusive purpose of verifying adequate compliance with the order provided" and for this purpose the Directorate of Assistance for Persons Under Electronic Surveillance of the Ministry of Justice (or the body in charge of executing the the measure, if appropriate for executive or jurisdictional reasons) for the implementation of the electronic surveillance device to the three defendants with an
"urgent nature"
.
The complaint had demanded the measure "to avoid being at the mercy of fate once again", in relation to the attack suffered by the former vice president and for which "it is necessary to restrict the movements of violent people whose political slogan is to kill or exile Kirchnerism and that, today, they walk through Congress without problems.
Leonardo Sosa and Jonathan Morel, members of the Federal Revolution group.
Specifically, he recalled that one of the accused, Leonardo Sosa,
was in the National Congress during the treatment of the "Omnibus Law"
.
It was located "more precisely, on the third floor of the lower house building. There are not only the boxes that overlook the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Nation; on the third floor there are also the offices of several deputies,
including that of Máximo Kirchner
".
"During his presence in the Chamber of Deputies, Sosa made hostile posts on the social network
The magistrate thus resolved after receiving the brief signed by lawyers Ubeira and Aldazábal, in which it was stated that there are still measures of evidence left before considering the investigation exhausted and sending it to an oral trial.
In the case, members of that group are being prosecuted without preventive detention
for crimes such as threats and coercion of different victims
, including Cristina Kirchner.
The defendants are Morel, Sosa, Guerra and Sabrina Basile for crimes they committed between May 2022 and October of that year.
The lawyers demanded that "the investigation be continued and, as the next measure,
Rosana Caputo be called to give an investigative statement
."
They also evaluated that two other partners of the real estate development company, Flavio and Jimena Caputo, also relatives of the Milei minister, should be cited in the same sense.
"A first step, delayed for months, is to summon Rosana Caputo and, then, Flavio and Jimena Caputo, to give an investigative statement," they insisted, reiterating a proposal made last year in relation to the former, who hired Morel to the provision of furniture for a housing complex, Espacio Añelo.
The lawyers argue that "the payments of Caputo Hermanos coincide with the existence and main activities of the Federal Revolution, and ceased when this group stopped acting."
In the case, witnesses testified that "further strengthened the conviction that Caputo Hermanos financed the Federal Revolution."
The lawyers then analyzed that "to begin with, none of the employees of the Caputo Hermanos company mentioned Rosana Caputo as a member of the work team, and yet, it was she who contacted Morel."
The payments to Morel or his relatives "coincide practically exactly with the existence of the Federal Revolution and cease with its dissolution, after the attack against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.", on September 1, 2022, they add.
The reference of the Federal Revolution group, Jonathan Morel.
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The lawyers referred to reports incorporated into the case that "showed the existence of transfers made by the trusts "Espacio Añelo" and "Santa Clara Del Sur" - both managed by the company Caputo Hermanos - to Jonathan Morel, Ailen Vallero and Evelyn Balboa." , these last two close to the first.
These transfers "took place, mainly, between January and August 2022, for approximately 6.5 million pesos," they concluded.
"We are far from reaching a procedural state in which the MPF has nothing more to do. On the contrary, the prosecutor still has a lot of work ahead of him and we request that he carry it out," they added in relation to an opinion by the prosecutor of the Gerardo Pollicita case on the status of the investigation.
With information from Télam.