Almost four years after Kirchnerism's Operation Puf against the Cuadernos de las Bribes case began, federal judge Julián Ercolini
dismissed prosecutor Carlos Stornelli from the cases called "Iranian Terrorism", "Brusa Dovat", "Pablo Erasmo Barreiro" and “Munin Talevi”.
Operativo Puf was a move carried out with the approval of former president Cristina Kirchner against Stornelli and the late judge Claudio Bonadio, who had prosecuted her in the Cuadernos case along with other former officials and construction businessmen for paying extra bribes. of 100 million dollars.
The maneuver began with
a game of forum shopping (electing a friendly judge) and investigating the complaints of extortion against the false lawyer Marcelo D'Alessio in the Dolores de Alejo Ramos Padilla court
and not in the Capital where the events had occurred. In November 2019, Judge K Ramos Padilla prosecuted Stornelli as an alleged member of “an organization” of spies and “national and international” extortioners based on a complaint from the false agricultural producer Pedro Etchebest.
But months later, the Federal Chamber of Mar del Plata annulled that central prosecution of Ramos Padilla as
“childish”
and Operativo Puf
began to fall.
This is how Deputy K Eduardo Valdez baptized him, before the complaint in Dolores, in telephone conversations with the former Secretary of Transportation Juan Pablo Schiavi who was imprisoned in Ezeiza and were recorded by court order.
In his resolution this Wednesday, Ercolini recalled that since the Mar del Plata court annulled that ruling “several years have passed
without the complaint proposing or providing new evidentiary measures that would allow supporting
- with the scope required for this stage of the process - some type of participation. ” and
the prosecutors of all instances did not file charges.
So, "I consider that the evidentiary measures added in the record regarding this fact
are not sufficient
to sustain an indefinite procedural situation with respect to the named person, but on the contrary, this new assessment allows me to sustain his separation,"
without affecting his good standing. name and honor
.
Based “on a new evaluation of the prevailing evidentiary framework, which will proceed to declare a dismissal in relation to the cases “Terrorism Iran”, “Pablo Erasmo Barreiro”, “Munin Talevi” and “Brusa Dovat - PDVSA”.
Throughout a detailed 30-page ruling, Ercolini also
ruled out
, for example, Stornelli's participation in an alleged “softening plan” by former PDVSA director Brusa Dovat” that Ramos Padilla maintained in 2019 with the support of Página 12 , C5N and other K media.
He said that the interviews with five journalists that D'Alessio organized for Brusa Dovat before testifying "referred to an exchange of communications in which
the prosecutor did not participate
, and in which - for the most part - he was not mentioned."
The former federal judge of Dolores and current judge of La Plata, Alejo Ramos Padilla, put together a case against Stornelli and former judge Bonadio that fell apart.
Furthermore, “to deduce that the prosecutor was part of an illicit plan and that he effectively knew that the witness would have been “coerced” in criminal terms,
does not find any justification or basis in the record,” he highlighted
.
Faced with this development, “Stornelli
acted as any prosecutor would
: receive a person who was going to report acts of corruption at PDVSA.
The prosecutor
did not deviate from the functions that the Organic Law of the Public Ministry
confers on him.
In fact, a witness showed up to testify or report to the prosecutor's office and received it.”
“The use or display
to third parties by D'Alessio
of that functional trust dispensed by Stornelli
cannot be criminally reproached
,” he added.
To do this, he took into account “Brusa Dovat
has expressed himself freely in the statement that was received by the Prosecutor's Office
” in which he had denounced irregularities in PDVSA Argentina after being fired from the Venezuelan company.
After the K campaign against Stornelli, there are only two firm lacks of merit left for private action issues.