The Federal Court of Criminal Cassation
ratified
the dismissal of former President Mauricio Macri and the former heads of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) in the case in which the alleged Macri "espionage" of relatives of the victims of the submarine shipwreck was investigated. San Juan denounced by the K.
Chamber II made up of judges Yacobucci, Ledesma and Borinsky
rejected
the appeals of the complaints that sought to take the case to the Supreme Court and ratified the dismissals.
Chamber II of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation made up of judges Guillermo Yacobucci, Angela Ledesma and Mariano Hernán Borinsky
declared inadmissible
the extraordinary appeals filed by the complaints of the sailors' relatives and thus confirmed the dismissals of Mauricio Macri, Gustavo Héctor Arribas, Silvia Majdalani and other agents of the Federal Intelligence Agency, within the framework of the case that investigated whether relatives of the victims of the ARA San Juan were spied on.
The appeal of the complaint represented by Luis Alberto Tagliapietra was unanimously declared inadmissible, and by a majority made up of judges Yacobucci and Borinsky those filed by the complaints represented
by the lawyer K Valeria Carreras
and Mariano Berges.
The Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) asked to intervene in the case as amicus curiae.
Despite the initial resistance, Chamber II – with a new conformation – enabled the participation of the jurist Alberto Binder and Paula Litvachky, director of the human rights organization.
The ruling of the Federal Chamber that ordered the dismissal confirmed that the activities carried out by the AFI were part of the tasks carried out
for the president's security and ruled out the espionage hypothesis promoted by the former AFI auditor K Cristina Caamaño and accepted the then federal judge of Dolores, Alejo Ramos Padilla.
When Cristina Kirchner had Ramos Padilla appointed in La Plata, Macri's prosecution was dictated by surrogate judge Martín Baba
.
By confirming the ruling, the cassation held that the case in which the sinking of the aforementioned ship ARA San Juan is being investigated should advance towards a concrete response for the relatives of the 44 crew members who lost their lives in the line of duty and in the service of the homeland.