The Supreme Court made said sentence final this week, so whoever knew how to be an official during the second term of Cristina Kirchner, must be submitted within three business days. The determination had been made in a 2015 ruling.
Jaime already was behind bars for seven yearsdue to the different causes in which he was prosecuted and convicted, among them, the cause Notebooks.
His defense attorney anticipated that will file an urgent appeal to prevent the former official from returning to a prison for his delicate state of health. He currently resides in the city of Córdoba.
Jaime has been treated for a carcinoma for some time. That was the reason why, on March 19, 2023, the cessation of prison was orderedunder conditions to be met.
The Tragedy of Once
The railway accident known as the Tragedy of Eleven occurred in the morning of Wednesday February 22, 2012when a formation of the Sarmiento line that was arriving at platform number 2 of the Once terminal station, It did not stop its march and rammed into the containment bumpers, leaving 52 people dead.among them, a pregnant woman.
In 2013, the case was elevated to oral trial with 28 prosecuted for the crimes of “fraud against the public administration” and “culpable derailment”. And on December 29, 2015, the Federal Criminal Oral Court No. 2 issued 21 convictions and 7 acquittals.
At 8:33 the accident occurred and the first three cars were compressed, with dozens of people inside.hence 110 ambulances from the Emergency Medical Care System (SAME)a team of fire engines, police officers and two helicopters responded to the scene.
702 injured people of varying severity were rescued, of which 200 were transferred to 13 hospitals in the City. One of them was the train driver Marcos Córdobawho was removed from the rubble with multiple injuries and transported by ambulance.
At 6 p.m., and after removing much of the rubble, the official announcement was that they had found 51 fatalities -among them, a pregnant woman- of whom three were children. That’s when Paolo Menghini Rey started the search for his son, Lucaswho had boarded the formation that collided at the terminal station, when several witnesses claimed that the boy had gotten off.
The freedom of Ricardo Jaime
The court considered that the eight-year sentence imposed on Jaime “no longer executable”but the former official will continue to be detained because he has preventive detention in the call “cause of corruption notebooks” and in another about illicit enrichment.
The news broke in the week that the Supreme Court of Justice confirmed the sentences applied to the former Secretary of Transportation Juan Pablo Schiavito businessmen Sergio Cirigliano and Roque Cirigliano and the driver Marcos Córdobaamong others.
However, he sent Jaime’s file back to the Cassation Chamber to define the sentence, in search of a double agreement.
Given the Court’s request for a new ruling to be issued, the Federal Oral Court 2 had understood that “the sentence was no longer enforceable” and thus granted freedom for the former official who until then remained detained in the prison of Ezeiza.
Source: Ambito
