He former president Alberto Fernández He will finally appear to provide an investigative statement next Thursday, December 19 at 11. The former president will give his testimony before the federal judge Julián Ercolini within the framework of the gender violence case opened by the complaint of the former first lady Fabiola Yañez.
The former president’s defense had previously requested the recusal of Ercolini from the case and suspend the investigative hearing until their claim is processed. As a result, the magistrate decided to postpone the hearing in nine days.
The postponement of Alberto Fernández’s investigative statement
Fernández was summoned in Comodoro Py for this Wednesday at 11 in the frame for the complaint of gender violence against his ex-partner Fabiola Yañez. However, finally the federal judge decided to postpone until Thursday, December 19 at the same time after the defense’s request to remove Ercolini, with a request to suspend the investigation.
Likewise, there was also presented a claim of incompetence so that the case went to the contraventional jurisdiction of Justice of the City of Buenos Aires. However, this request does not suspend the summons ordered in the federal courts of Comodoro Py.
Previously, the former president’s lawyer had also unsuccessfully requested the recusal of the prosecutor Ramiro González, who is carrying out the investigation, for “loss of objectivity“. González was the one who summoned Fernández through a letter in which he advanced the accusation.
“In a context of gender violence marked by the particular asymmetrical power relationship between Alberto Ángel Fernández and Fabiola Andrea Yáñez, at least from 2016 until August 6, 2024 (date on which the victim filed criminal action in the present file and the consequent prohibition of contact was imposed on the named), the accused would have taken advantage of the special situation of pre-existing vulnerability to the relationship in which he found himself. “the aforementioned is immersed in, and exercised regularly and continuously, psychological violence against Yáñez, in the forms of harassment, harassment, controls, indifference, insults, blaming, destitution, withdrawal of speech, ignoring and hostility,” the text declared.
After the comings and goings, the former president will have to appear on the fourth floor of Comodoro Py 2002 on Thursday, December 19, accused of ““minor injuries doubly aggravated by being committed through gender violence and against her then partner; a serious injury due to the permanent weakening of the former first lady’s health – also doubly aggravated – and the crime of coercion.” The crimes, together, provide for a maximum of 18 years in prison in the event of a possible conviction.
Insurance cause: declared the former secretary of Alberto Fernández
The cause of gender violence is not the only one that the former president faces. In recent weeks, his former private secretary, María Cantero, and her husband, the broker Héctor Martínez Sosa, appeared at the investigative statement round this Thursday in the insurance case after the former president did so on Wednesday. Both refused to answer questions and only Martínez Sosa presented a brief.
The broker was the first to arrive at the Comodoro Py courts and refused to answer questions from prosecutor Carlos Rívolo and Ercolini. Instead he chose to present a 170-page document with 16 annexes. In it, he denied the charges against him, but he confirmed his years-long friendship with Alberto Fernández and his visits to the presidential residence of Olivos.
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“I have a friendly relationship with former President Alberto Fernández for many years, and I never denied it. I visited him on some occasions in the Olivos villa and I was in the Casa Rosada when he was sworn in as president of the Nation,” Martínez Sosa admitted in his writing to which Ámbito had access.
Regarding the accusations, he justified the hirings, which he described as “lawful“, due to the history of an insurance company: “we have a prestige gained in a very competitive insurance market in which we are known because we provide excellent service”
About commissions what he charged and the amountMartínez Sosa maintained that it was in line with the usual prices. “Those commissions They were never higher than what is customary to charge in the insurance market. All commissions were in payment of compensation actually made and within the framework of law 22,400 that governs producers/advisors/organizers,” he stated.
In turn, Martínez Sosa also criticized the investigation into the case. He assured that there were several brokers that worked with state insurance. However, according to him, the case only focuses on a few: “The insurance advisory producers who were appointed before NACION SEGUROS were many more than those indicated by the Prosecutor in his second opinion, and who were later requested by VS” .
Finally, the broker also defended his wife and denied that she had interceded on his behalf. “In no way were the appointments directed by my wife María Canterobeyond the fact that he always cared about me doing well in my job, of course,” he stated.
Then it was the turn of Maria Canterothe former secretary of Alberto Fernández. The woman answered questions and did not even present a document. She had testified in the case for complaint of gender violence What Fabiola Yañez did with the former president, derived from the Insurance case. On that occasion, he only spoke of the former presidential partner.
Source: Ambito
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