criminal complaint filed after Milei’s statements is dismissed

criminal complaint filed after Milei’s statements is dismissed

The Justice Department dismissed a criminal case that accumulated several complaints that different lawyers initiated after statements by Javier Milei about alleged bribes in Congress. The president had said that some were looking for “bribes.”

The case began in December of last year following the complaint made by lawyer Leonardo Martínez Herrero following President Milei’s statements, made publicly on a television program.

Milei had said that in Congress, “some are looking for bribes” and that there was “a lot of gossip going around.”

Then other complaints were added, also based on statements by Milei, who called the deputies “coimeros.”

‘We have identified the suitcases, there are dozens of them, of oil, biodiesel,’ Milei reportedly said, according to a complaint made by lawyer Valeria Carreras.

The cases accumulated and the federal prosecutor Alejandra Mangano asked the Chamber of Deputies of Congress for explanations, which responded to the court that there were two internal files initiated and being processed in that legislative body.

The prosecutor’s office ruled in favor of dismissing the complaint by warning that “the conditions are not in place to promote a criminal investigation into the possible existence of illegal acts that occurred within the National Congress by members of the legislative body, specifically the Chamber of Deputies

Generic statements

“The expressions analyzed are generic statements in which any indicative or contextual element that serves to identify the authors or participants is deliberately omitted, and thus prevents starting an investigation into them,” the prosecutor’s office had stated.

Political discussion

The prosecutor maintained that “the failure to identify a specific fact with criminal legal relevance makes the exercise of this accusation inadmissible, which does not prevent the intervention of other extra-criminal state agencies in the political discussion and/or eventual ethical reproach of certain behaviors.”

“The fact that the expressions denounced here belong exclusively to the field of public debate and political activity means that their implications are resolved within the institutions that fulfill that function and through the resources created for such purposes,” the opinion warned. who dismissed the complaint.

The prosecution added that “the National Congress is, in that sense, the body that is completing the crucial task of directing the political debate, in accordance with the democratic representative, republican and federal form adopted by our country, according to art. . 1 of the National Constitution. And it is there where the Honorable Chamber of Deputies has initiated the measures planned for the substantiation of matters of this nature.”

As there was no criminal impulse, Judge Ariel Lijo dismissed the complaints for “not being able to proceed” after the ruling that the criminal case was filed.

Source: Ambito

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