The Federal Chamber of La Plata must define which judge should continue investigating the case known as Anti-union Gestapoafter a judge from Comodoro Py requested the file that is currently being processed before the La Plata justice system and in which former officials of the AFI and the government of María Eugenia Vidal.
This was decided by the chambermaid who is part of the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber Eduardo Farah when resolving a jurisdiction conflict that arose after a judge’s decision Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi to request the case from his counterpart from La Plata, Ernesto Kreplak.
This is the case for the events that occurred in a meeting at Banco Provincia in June 2017, which was filmed and where there was talk of a Anti-union Gestapo to advance with complaints against the union member Juan Pablo “Pata” Medinawho would be arrested shortly after.
The jurisdiction conflict was initiated by one of the AFI defendants, Juan Sebastian De Stefanowhich based its claim on an alleged connection between the case of illegal espionage led by Martínez de Giorgi and that of the anti-union Gestapo investigated by Kreplak. The question of competition escalated before the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires. By draw it was his turn to intervene and define Farah. But for the judge the “elevation” to the Buenos Aires Chamber that has its headquarters in Retiro is “incorrect”. He maintains that the one who should define is his counterpart from La Plata.
To support this decision, Judge Farah reviews the files: the case being handled by Martínez de Giorgi is about the alleged formation of an illicit association by different public officials (from the Federal Intelligence Agency and other agencies) to carry out of certain acts of illegal intelligence in different spaces and with varied objectives.
While the file that is in La Plata, was initiated at the end of 2021 against officials of the Federal Intelligence Agency and the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires during 2015-2019, who participated in a meeting at the capital headquarters of the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires, with the supposed purpose of carrying out a maneuver aimed at persecuting, spuriously prosecuting and arresting the representative of the UOCRA “Pata” Medina.
In this framework, some accused parties postulated incompetence in favor of the federal jurisdiction of the Capital, for territorial reasons and invoking the relationship with summaries of this jurisdiction.
The chambermaid also alludes to the existence of another file: on November 26, 2019, “Pata” Medina denounced in the federal jurisdiction a persecution maneuver against him, with the aim of “arming” criminal cases and arresting him, carried out by officials of the National Executive Branch who exercised power between 2015 and 2019, of the Province of Buenos Aires in the same period. and provincial and federal judges of that province.
He included among those allegedly responsible the then President, the Minister of Security and authorities of the Intelligence Secretariat, the Governor and the Minister of Labor of the Province, among others. That file, according to the chambermaid, is not part of the jurisdiction conflict.
When Martínez de Giorgi asked for the anti-union Gestapo file, his colleague Kreplak refused to hand it over to the Retiro courts.
Resolution of the Federal Chamber
For Judge Farah, when there is a dispute, because the judge rejects the referral of the case, and the requesting magistrate insists on his approach, (as in this case) “it is up to the Court of Appeals of the judge who prevented” to resolve, this It is the Federal Chamber of La Plata.
The chambermaid decided to “declare the proceedings poorly elevated and return them to the court of first instance, for its purposes.”
Source: Ambito
