daniel santororenowned journalist, assured that the vice president is not guilty until proven otherwise and is respecting the political curse of menem, who ended up with house arrest. “As he is 70 years old, he will comply with house arrest if the sentence is confirmed,” he said in Fontevecchia modeby net tv and RadioProfile (FM 101.9).
Could you read the rationale for the sentence of Cristina Kirchner?
I read some things, and the topic that interests me is Why was she not sentenced as the head of an illicit association?what the prosecutor in the case requested, and why De Vido was acquitted.
I read that, for the members of the Court, two of the characteristics of the crime of illicit association were not verified, which were the plurality of indeterminate criminal plans and the number of people that make it up.
They also make a long development with dogmatic quotes and explain that people are not the same in the Cause Road that the accused is the willows and hotesur.
For the judges, Cristina Kirchner and Báez “were the true beneficiaries of the fraud”
And they say that these groups committed different plans and that is the heart of the rejection of the figure of illicit association.
It is always said that it is difficult to prove that figure of the head of an illegal association. The ultra k defended Cristina saying that she could not know what was happening with public works. Does this defense seem forceful to you? Why is it so hard to check?
First, when Menem He was prosecuted in the case of the illegal sale of arms to Ecuador and Croatia, Judge Urso and prosecutor Stonerlli used that as the former president was the head of a gang.
But when he arrived at the Court, there were concepts that he was a figure to apply to common criminals and not to officials from a democratic government.
There is a dogmatic reluctance in the courts to use the illicit association chief figurethat aggravates the procedural situation of a person if an illicit association had been added to the crime of fraud against the state, to which Cristina was sentenced.
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The Court has echoed this trend of not measuring itself with this crime and political leaders.
Alexander Gomel (AG): Does this ruling explain the direct connection between Cristina and the crimes?
Yes, the ruling says that “even without friendship and formal partnership, the benefit obtained Fernandez de Kirchner thanks to Lazaro Baez It is more than enough to explain the setup of such a fraudulent operation”.
That is, the Oral Court unites the 51 contracts with overprices and works that were not completed. 75 kilometers of Route 40, the one that is attached to the Cordillera, are unpaved. there was a fraud out of control.
And Báez was the one who contracted the Alto Calafate and another of the Kirchner family hotels, that is the point that the ruling points out.
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He also speaks of an “immeasurable economic collusion that represented, for the former president, hiring whoever was the main builder of public works and roads in Santa Cruz during her term.”
These are the arguments, and that is why they say that it is not proven that De Vido has had economic benefits, and that according to the functions of his Ministry, it was not up to him to control what was happening with public works in Santa Cruz.
Does it strike you that De Vido has been acquitted?
The Court, in the file, says that, unlike Cristina, it was not made that Báez has financially favored De Vido. What happens is that one thing is what we know, with the affinities between officials. But if in the file the judges say that it is not proven that they obtained a benefit, it must be so.
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Do you think that Cristina can have an end similar to that of Menem with house arrest?
I think that Menem’s political curse is passing, who said that “he who becomes pope will not be an altar boy again.” However, he had to be re-elected senator to have the charter.
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Cristina will have to walk the same path. She now has ten days to appeal to the Chamber of Cassation, and there we enter a process that can last no less than two years. She will not be in any danger, since being 70 years old, she will comply with domiciliary if the sentence is confirmed.
How do you imagine it? Candidate to avoid this?
This week, the electoral judge of the capital María Servini recalled that Cristina is not disabled. Like the case of Menem, in 2017, when a request was made for Carlos Saúl not to appear because he had a conviction, but the Court said that the sentence was not final, so he could appear.
It can be presented until the sentence is final or not. And let’s not talk about other causes, where the Court of Cassation must confirm or not the dismissal of Cristina in the cause of the notebooks and Hotesur and Los Sauces.
She is carrying out a political strategy of pressure on Justice, in general, and the Court, in particular, which we still do not know how it will end.
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There was talk at some point of unifying the causes. Now would the reopening of any of those remain?
Yes, that in the investigation stage, the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires said that it was necessary to investigate the cause of money K, where Cristina is charged. Now Casación granted the sentence to Lázaro Báez, beyond the fact that he reduced it.
That was an idea that remained as a legal theoretical proposal, but they are separate oral trials.
AG: From a political point of view, is there a fight between Christianity and part of justice? Is there a victimization of Kirchnerism?
My opinion is that Cristina is not guilty until the sentence is final.
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But I have never seen this level of pressure, not only in the speech, but in launching a request for impeachment to the Court. Cristina took more than 20 legal and administrative measures to try to improve her procedural situation.
Menem had another profile and defended himself in his cause. He did criticize the judges, but not with this level of tension between a government, a political party and the Justice, it is something that worries me. I don’t know how it will end, it also depends on the elections of this year.
Let’s hope that the process is respected, something that has not happened so far. We will see how the political context ends up defining this cause.
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