The former head of the Fernando De la Rúa Police will have to serve three and a half years in prison. Last week, the Supreme Court also ratified the sentence for the former Secretary of Security, Enrique Mathov.
He Former head of the Federal Police in the government of Fernando De La Rúa, Commissioner Rubén Santossurrendered this Monday before the Federal Oral Court 6 to begin serving the sentence of 3 years and six months in prison for the 2001 repression that confirmed the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
Santos was traveling in Spain When the country’s highest court rejected an appeal by his defense, he returned early by court order and on Monday morning he showed up at Comodoro Py 2002 to be arrested, judicial sources reported.
The same thing was done last Thursday by the former Secretary of Security of that Government, Enrique Mathovwho was held in Ezeiza prison while a request for house arrest for being over 70 years old made by his defense is resolved.
Santos had been given 72 hours by the TOF6 to return to the country, a deadline that he complied with. In the case of Mathov He was convicted on May 18, 2021 of three culpable homicides and the injuries suffered by dozens of protesters in the area of Plaza de Mayo during the repression that preceded the resignation of the late former president Fernando de la Rúa, who was acquitted in the case.
The former official was imprisoned for this case for 6 months and 25 days from January 1, 2002, until July 26, 2002, when he was released. Therefore, according to the sentence calculation made by the court, his sentence will be completed on May 22, 2028. In the case of the former head of the Federal Police, Santos, he was detained for 5 months and 19 days in 2002, for which reason his sentence will be completed on September 28, 2027.
The Court summoned both of them after yesterday lThe Supreme Court of Justice upheld the sentences and rejected as “inadmissible” the extraordinary appeals presented by the defense. Santos and Mathov were convicted in an oral trial in 2016 by the Federal Oral Court 6.
The verdict of that oral trial was appealed, reviewed by the Court of Cassation and ordered the sentences to be modified, which were reduced to those that the Court now upheld by rejecting the appeals.
Mathov and Santos were convicted of the deaths of three of the protesters, Gaston Riva, Carlos Almiron and Diego Lamagna and the injuries that the police caused to another 20 during the protests in Plaza de Mayo, in the midst of the state of siege that De La Rúa had declared.
Source: Ambito
