At one hearing per week, the process could last more than seven years. Former minister Julio De Vido, Juan Manuel Abal Medina and Roberto Baratta are also accused.
He Federal Criminal Oral Court No. 7 provided within the framework of the cause Notebooks call 626 witnesses to give testimony, in a trial that will begin on November 11, 2025, according to the brief.
With more than one hundred accused, among them the former president Cristina Kirchnerthe hearings will take place every Thursday, and judicial sources indicated that among the more than 600 witnesses, the defenses, and expert opinions, it is a process that could last more than seven years. In addition to Cristina Kirchner they are accused of former minister Julio De Vido, his right-hand man Roberto Baratta, Juan Manuel Abal Medina and businessmen linked to the universe of public works.
Days ago, the Federal Court of Criminal Cassation ruled that the businessman Angelo Calcaterra and other defendants in the Cuadernos case were tried for alleged payment of bribes to benefit from public works and not for crimes with electoral contributions, as their defense requested.
The highest criminal court annulled a ruling from June 19 in which Calcaterra’s defense proposal had been accepted and his case had been sent to the electoral jurisdiction, according to the ruling of Chamber I made up of judges Daniel Petrone, Diego Barroetaveña and Carlos Mahiques.
With the dissent of Mahiques, that decision was annulled and the prosecutor Raúl Plée, who had raised the annulment of the decision due to lack of prior notification to the complaint from the Financial Information Unit (UIF), was justified.
The doubts about the process refer to whether the material conditions of human resources and infrastructure are in place to be able to carry out an extensive process with more than one hundred defendants. There had even been thought of fragmenting some sections and advancing through different routes. The process will be long and judges Enrique Mendez Signori, Fernando Canero and Germán Castelli They decided that the hearings would be by zoom.
Source: Ambito
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