Finally, the Federal Court of Criminal Cassation today confirmed the six-year prison sentence of former President Cristina Kirchner for “fraudulent administration” and the disqualification from holding public office for the “Roads” case. Unlike other moments of the judicial process, the Peronist leader decided to receive the news while participating in an event in Moreno, province of Buenos Aires.
“In a little while we are leaving for Moreno, to a meeting with 400 women. Kisses,” was the message of the video that Cristina Kirchner uploaded to her social networks at 10:36 in the morning, just minutes before the magistrates will ratify his conviction.
Cristina Kirchner received the Cassation sentence while leading an event in Moreno
Far from her desk, as she has shown on previous occasions, this time the former president decided to receive the news of the Road Cause in a different scenario: the Peronist leader traveled to Moreno where she visited the “El Polaquito” Home together with the mayor Mariel Fernández .
The former president spent Tuesday night at her daughter Florencia’s apartment located in Constitución. Then, after sharing the message on social networks, he addressed Moreno’s Buenos Aires party. There, Cristina Kirchner will participate in an activity with 400 women from the district.
While the mayor and former president made the tour, in Comodoro Py the magistrates confirmed the sentence of 6 years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office.
The conviction of Cristina Kirchner for the Road Traffic Case
The Federal Court of Criminal Cassation confirmed the six-year prison sentence imposed on former president Cristina Kirchner in the Roads case. It is also endorsed the disqualification life to access public office.
Despite the judges’ definition, for the sentence becomes final, it must first pass through the Supreme Court of Justice.
The decision of Chamber IV of the country’s highest federal criminal court was announced this morning in a public hearing in Comodoro Py where the magistrates read the operative part of the ruling. From that moment, the within ten business days for those sentenced to appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
The judges’ decision It had already been anticipated days before. Given this, Cristina herself He made a statement on his social networks, recalling the assassination attempt by the “copitos.”
In detail, the court rejected for “unanimity the appeals filed by the defenses” and consequently confirmed “the sequence appealed insofar as it was a matter of challenge”. Furthermore, Cassation confirmed the sentences six years in prison to: the former Secretary of Public Works José López; the former head of National Highways Nelson Periott already Lazaro Baez.
In reading the ruling, the magistrates confirmed the final acquittal of the former Minister of Federal Planning Julio De Vido and the acquittals of Abel Fatala and Héctor René Garro. Juan Carlos Villafañe suffered a different fate – sentenced to 5 years – and Raúl Pavesi – to 4 years and 6 months in prison -, José Santibáñez – to 4 years – and Raúl Daruich – to 3 years in prison -. They were all former Highway officials.
At the beginning of this year, these members of Chamber IV of Cassation heard in successive hearings the arguments of appeal to the verdict that the Federal Oral Court 2 issued on December 6, 2022 at the end of an oral trial of the former president, former officials of her government and businessman Lázaro Báez started in 2019.
In that instance of appeal, the prosecutor before Mario Villar Cassation insisted on sentence Cristina Kirchner to 12 years in prisonby supporting trial prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Molawho had demanded that sentence in the oral debate because they understood that there were two crimes, fraudulent administration and illicit association. In this sense, the Chamber endorsed the first, but He ruled out the second.
Source: Ambito
