The Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation upheld the prosecution of the leader of the Polo Obrero, Eduardo Belliboni, for alleged fraudulent administration, coercive threats and extortion in the case for the management of social plans and thus left him in a position to be sent to oral trial.
The country’s highest federal criminal court rejected Belliboni’s appeals as “inadmissible” and 14 other defendants in the investigation and thus made firm the prosecutions confirmed by the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires.
The chambermaids Gustavo Hornos, Javier Carbajo and Mariano Borinsky They also left standing a decision of Chamber I of the Federal Chamber that aggravated the procedural situation of Belliboni and another representative of the Polo Obrero, Maria Dottiby adding in their cases the crimes of coercive threats and extortion of beneficiaries of the programs to force them to attend pickets and marches.
In the case, federal judge Sebastián Casanellohas already begun the procedures to send the file to trial, for which it has given the parties a hearing.
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Cassation dismissed the appeals as “inadmissible” due to formal issues related to the fact that it was not found “duly founded a federal question” with which the decisions were confirmed.
He also stressed that the prosecutions They are not a “final sentence or comparable to such”. Belliboni is prosecuted for “fraudulent administration”, “coercive threats” and “extortion” for diversion of public funds intended for the “Potenciar Trabajo” program.
The union leader He was prosecuted last August by federal judge Sebastián Casanello for alleged “fraudulent administration to the detriment of public administration” and now the Court of Appeals confirmed that decision and added two more crimes, “coercive threats” and “aggravated extortion,” according to the resolution published by the Noticias Argentinas agency.
The chambermaids Leopoldo Bruglia, Pablo Bertuzzi and Mariano Llorens considered that there is evidence about the “diversion of public funds allocated to the Polo Obrero and El Resplandorthrough different agreements entered into with the former Ministry of Social Development of the Nation within the framework of the Empower Work Program.
Furthermore, the accusation includes the alleged “imposition of a series of demands on the beneficiaries of the same unrelated to what was agreed in exchange for not losing state aidthus betraying the interests entrusted by the State to obtain a particular benefit unrelated to the objective of that public policy.”
The funds were diverted and would have been used to “defray the payment of expenses linked to party political activities”the Federal Court considered proven when it confirmed the prosecutions last November.
Source: Ambito
