The Supreme Court of Justice issued this Thursday two rulings involving Cristina Kirchner. In one he left firm his dismissal and that of Axel Kicillof in the cause future dollar and, in the other, he ordered that the former president go to oral trial for him Memorandum with Iran.
After a long judicial journey, The case for the Memorandum with Iran will be sent to oral trial signed in 2013 during the last government of Cristina Kirchner. This was decided by the highest court in a ruling signed by Horacio Rosatti, Juan Carlos Maqueda (in a joint vote), Carlos Rosenkrantz and Ricardo Lorenzetti.
Without getting into the underlying issue or evaluating the evidence that exists in the file, The Court ruled out that there was arbitrariness or institutional gravity in the decision made by Cassation. The former president’s defense had argued that the decision was not judicializable.
The case is about Memorandum signed between Argentina and Iran in 2013 and approved by both Chambers of the National Congress, in which, among other points, it established that the judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral and the prosecutor Alberto Nisman of the cause for the attempt to the AMIA from 1994 They could interrogate Iranian suspects with Interpol red notices.
By this memorandum, in January 2015 The then prosecutor Alberto Nisman denounced Cristina Kirchner, to his government officials and political leaders, accusing them of signing an impunity pact with the Iranians. The accused are Eduardo Zuain, Carlos Zannini, Oscar Parrilli, Angelina Abbona, Juan Martín Mena, Andrés Larroque, Luis D´Elía, Fernando Esteche, Jorge Khalil and Ramón Bogado. The then chancellor was also accused Hector Timermanwho died of cancer in 2018.
Dismissal in “future dollar”
In the other cause known as “future dollar”, the Court left firm the dismissal of former president Cristina Kirchner, the then Minister of Economy and today governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, and a group of former public officials. It is the final point of this case.
Once again, the highest court decided not to rule on the underlying issue and left the resolution of the Federal Court of Criminal Cassation firm.
The case had its origin in a complaint made by deputies of the PRO and the UCR which maintained that between August and November 2015 the Central Bank sold “future dollar” contracts at $10.6 and $10.8 per unit to the private sector to be settled between February and June-July 2016. As at that time, the dollar “blue” was priced at 16 pesos, the legislators maintained that this action implied damage to the State.
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The complaint fell into the hands of the Judge Claudio Bonadio (already deceased). In May 2016 he prosecuted Cristina Kirchner, Axel Kicillof –in his role as Minister of Economy– and those responsible for the Central Bank, among whom was the economist Alejandro Vanoli.
Precisely, Vanoli published on his X account after the Court’s decision. “They were looking for an excuse to kick me out of BCentral if I didn’t resign. So Macri had free rein to devalue and enrich many, harming the country,” he denounced.
On April 13, 2021, the Cassation judges Daniel Petrone, Diego Barroetaveña and Ana María Figueroa They ruled in favor of closing the case after an expert opinion carried out by analysts from the Supreme Court that confirmed that there had been no harm to the Stateaccording to the balance sheets of the Central Bank for 2015 and 2016.
Source: Ambito
