The federal prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan reiterated that There is no evidence to prosecute former Vice President Cristina Kirchner in the so-called case where businessman Lázaro Báez was sentenced to prison for money laundering.when ruling again by order of the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber.
The former president was dismissed in this investigation after a first ruling by the prosecutor’s office in that sense, but then the Court of Appeals revoked this decision and accepted as a plaintiff a civil association called “Bases” that questioned the validity of the ruling and claimed its annulment.
Given this, the Court of Appeals ordered last September that Marijuán issue a new ruling on Cristina Kirchner’s situation in the case, something that the prosecutor specified in a new ruling now delivered to federal judge Sebastián Casanello.
“I must point out that the procedural situation of Cristina Elizabet Fernández has been opportunely analyzed in detail with the different evidence in the file that, inexorably, has led me to the conclusion and the request for dismissal formulated that I maintain in all its terms,” stated the prosecutor in the opinion to which Noticias Argentinas had access.
In that regard, Marijuán rejected “flatly and forcefully” the proposal to annul the opinion of May 24, 2023 in which he postulated the dismissal of the former vice president due to lack of evidence, something that Casanello later specified.
“In the task of determining whether the real participation of Cristina Elizabet Fernández is accredited for the facts for which she was investigated, the evidence gathered is, in the opinion of this party, insufficient,” Marijuán insisted in the new opinion that will be evaluated now for Casanello to decide whether to validate it or declare its nullity.
Marijuán also questioned the decision of the Federal Chamber that accepted as a plaintiff “Civil Association Bases”presented in the case after the dismissal of Cristina Kirchner and “without it being possible to understand to this day what the basis is for accepting them as a party in this process.”
With this decision, “an unusual and unprecedented legal uncertainty is generated for the parties, since this door that opens could be multiplied without limit by all the people who wish to participate in a criminal process with the sole invocation of a “general and indirect grievance.” .
“Bases” that “for years did not participate in the process, did not have copies of the file nor is it known where it obtained information, with a clear political bias comes to request, in the form of timely appearances, different proposals that it only intends to take advantage of.” political due to the public importance of the event,” the prosecutor concluded.
In the case investigated by Casanello and Marijuán, the owner of Austral Construcciones Lázaro Báez was tried and convicted of money laundering at the end of an oral trial in which there were also sentences for 17 other defendants.
The Federal Court of Cassation confirmed the sentence, reducing it from 12 to 10 years in prison for Báez, while his son Martin received a sentence of 6 years and 6 months in prison for laundering 55 million dollars.
Source: Ambito
