He Government Argentine formally requested the judge Loretta Preska to reconsider your order to deliver private conversations and communications of senior officials of the current and past efforts, including Luis Caputo and Sergio Massa.
The approach is given within the framework of the judgment for the expropriation of YPF, where the plaintiffs seek to access material that would include WhatsApp chats, emails and other forms of digital contact.
In this new presentation, the Argentine State argued that does not have electronic devices from which the requested messages would have been issued. According to the approach, the phones and computers belong to officials in their individual character and are not under control of the State, so it cannot guarantee or facilitate their delivery.
Discovery’s new request includes sensitive information that, according to the government, warned It could violate basic principles of confidentiality and institutional sovereignty. In addition to Caputo and Massa, the order reaches other senior officials and former officialswhich generated concern within the Executive for the scope of the judicial claim.
The Treasury Procurement, headed by Rodrigo Díaz, had already warned last week that was evaluating the legal mechanisms to challenge Perishka’s decision. In the most recent brief, the Government described the order as an unprecedented advance on national authorities and asked the court to review the criteria applied at this stage of the trial.
Cause YPF: Argentina seeks to Judge Loretta Preska block the complaint of an NGO
The government promised to collaborate with the United States justice in the case YPF, in the midst of suspicions of corruption about the entry of the Eskenazi. If it is confirmed that they hid evidence, Argentina could request the nullity of the failure.
In the midst of one of the most important judicial disputes in recent years, the Government presented a key letter before the Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit of the United States. The presentation responds to the appeal filed by the organization Republican Action for Argentina (RA4ARG)which seeks to intervene in the millionaire trial for the expropriation of YPF. In the document, Argentina ratified its willingness to collaborate with American justice in the face of the suspicions of corruption that surround the entry of the Eskenazi group into the oil company.
The YPF cause, which faces the national state with the funds Burford Capital and Eton Parkalready had an adverse failure in the first instance. The New York judge Loretta Preska He condemned Argentina to pay more than US $ 16,000 million for the nationalization of the company in 2012. However, the country appealed and awaits a definition of the Second Instance Court. In parallel, different derivations of the case continue to generate political and judicial tension.
Support for corruption research
In his brief, the Argentine State requested that the appeal of Ra4arg be processed separately from its own appeal against the Preska ruling. He argued that both claims address different legal issues: while the government discusses the bottom of the case, Ra4arg insists that he unduly denied the right to intervene as a third party.
But the most striking of the text was the explicit pronouncement of the national government about corruption allegations linked to the purchase of YPF actions by the Eskenazi group during the Kirchner governments. The brief affirms that Argentina “seriously takes all complaints of corruption” and was “open to collaborate with an investigation by the United States Department of Justice” on that point.
The entry of the Eskenazi to YPF was subject to multiple controversies and, according to the official presentation, if it was confirmed that entrepreneurs hid evidence or provided false testimony during the judicial process, Argentina could initiate actions to annul the Pruka judgment.
Cross causes and judicial times
The suspicions about the role of the Eskenazi group in the YPF entry operation are already mentioned in other relevant judicial causes in Argentina, as in the “road” file, in which the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was condemned. The possible connection between the facts investigated in the Argentine courts and the case that processes in the United States could have an impact on the outcome of the millionaire litigation.
For now, the NGO RA4ARG now has a period of 21 days to respond to the arguments made by both Argentina and the demanding fund. Independently, a request from the same organization is also pending resolution to suspend the audience of the background appeal of the Petersen case, scheduled by the end of October.
The Second Circuit Chamber of Appeals would resolve in the next few days if it makes room for that application, which could alter the calendar of the process.
Source: Ambito
