After the judicial setback that he received this Friday, when the Contentious Administrative Court rejected his request to be reinstated as a member of the SenateJustice advanced with raids on the two offices of Edgardo Kueider, both on the third floor of the Legislative Palace and on the fifth floor of the annex. The extradition request from Paraguay remains pending.
Kueider’s offices now They were closed since last weekexecuted by the Senate Security Directorate at the formal request of the federal judge Sandra Arroyo Salgadowith the aim of preserving potential evidence until the trespass.
Justice rejected Edgardo Kueider’s request to be reinstated as senator
The judge in federal administrative litigation, Enrique Lavié Pico, rejected this afternoon “in limine” the request of former senator Eduardo Kueider. The magistrate did not accept the possibility of being restored to his bench through a precautionary measure, according to the resolution to which Scope had access.
In his ruling, the magistrate endorsed the participation of Victoria Villarruel as head of the Senate – on the same day as the president Javier Milei traveled to Italy – so Kueider’s claim, who had objected that the head of the Upper House should be in charge of the Executive Branch at the time of the debate, was void. “The claim formulated by the plaintiff, would imply the unacceptable declaration of nullity for the sake of nullity itself“, justified the Judge.
In detail, regarding what happened during the session in the Senate – after which Kueider was finally removed from his seat -, Lavié Pico stated that “there are no doubts“that Villarruel’s role “has not had any interference in the voting result to which the National Senators finally arrived in the use of their exclusive powers, as it has been strictly limited in the parliamentary order to presiding over the session in question.” In this way, the magistrate refused to give rise to the proposal formulated by the former senator, since would mean to declare “nullity for nullity itself“.
In detail, the magistrate stated that Villarruel’s participation in the session was limited “expressly to the provisions of article 57 of the National Constitution.” He details that the “vice president of the Nation will be president of the Senate; but will not have a vote except in the event that there is a tie in the vote. Despite Kueider’s claim, the judge stressed that no other senator objected to the vice president’s participation.
Edgardo Kueider and his secretary asked for exemption from prison and to remove Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado
The request for annulment of the dismissal was not the only one made by the former legislator’s defense. In the last hours, the lawyer Maximiliano Ruiz – representative of Kueider and his secretary, Iara Costa -, asked the Argentine Justice to exemption from prison and the recusal of Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado. According to the lawyers, “there is political persecution and prejudgment on the part of the magistrate“.
The defense request takes place after Arroyo Salgado requested extradition for the purposes of taking an investigative statement from both, within the framework of the case that investigates alleged illicit enrichment, abuse of authority, failure to comply with the duties of a public official, passive bribery. and active, negotiations incompatible with the exercise of public functions, influence peddling and money laundering.
Arroyo Salgado also asked the Paraguayan prosecutors to kidnap him cell phones to former senator and Guinsel Costaa measure that until now the representatives of the Public Ministry of Paraguay had not specified. The Argentine judge made this request to determine if the mobile devices were manipulated, in person or remotely, and, if so, try to recover the content.
The request includes all the objects that were found in his possession at the time of his arrest and the that are seized after the raid in the apartment where they are serving house arrest, in the Tierra Alta complex, in Asunción. The search, according to the judge’s request, must include warehouses, storage rooms, annexes, offices and garages of the property, with the aim of also seizing computer equipment, such as computers, pen drives, external disks, that Kueider and Guinsel Costa have in their possession. .
Source: Ambito
