The former president Alberto Fernández He appeared on Monday in the retirement courts to participate in an hearing before the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber in an attempt to separate federal judge Julián Ercolini of the Seguros case.
Fernández arrived shortly before 13 to the second floor of Comodoro Py 2002, headquarters of the Court of Appeals, and entered the hearing before the cameraman of Chamber II Roberto Boico next to his lawyer Mariana Barbitta. The former president decided to participate in the procedure despite the fact that his presence was not necessary and with that of his defender, it was enough.
First said Barbitta, who delivered the magistrate Transcripts of alleged message exchanges between Fernández and Ercolini Between 2017 and 2018, and then the former president spoke.
Fernández told the judge that Ercolini seeks to leave him “imprisoned” in this case because “he hates him” and acts in “revenge”reiterating that the challenge must be taken and separate it from the case.
Now the boyic judge must make a decision in relation to whether or not to have “manifest enmity” by the magistrate towards the former president.
Fernández was investigated on November 27 in this investigation and this week will conclude the round of investigative statements.
Now the judge must define his procedural situation and that of the other defendants already investigated, including his former private secretary María Cantero And her husband and “broker” of Insurance Héctor Martínez Sosa, suspected of having been a beneficiary by nation safe in the intermediation of most of the contracts investigated. Crimes are investigated in the management of insurance policies for public bodies.
According to the accusation of prosecutor Carlos Rivol in those hiring between 2019 and 2023.
It is estimated that Martínez Sosa would have charged $ 360 million in commissions with his company, but this figure increases if it is proven that he used other companies linked to his person. Fernández is charged with alleged fraud to the State and negotiations incompatible with the public function.
Both the former president and the rest of the 44 defendants are charged with “having intervened jointly and functionally, approximately between the month of December 2019 and the month of December 2023, in a scheme of collection and distribution of public funds by means of irregular addressing in hiring and intermediation in insurance taken by different public distributions in ´Nación Seguros SA ´ “.
To do this, “a part of those appointed, with the collusion of Fernández, would have operated in the hiring of insurance of various state entities, and especially through the intermediation of individuals and companies between said entities and the insurer ´nación Seguros Sa “, details the imputation.
Cause for gender violence against Fabiola Yañez
Meanwhile, Fernández must appear on Tuesday to declare in investigation At 11 in the morning In the courts of Comodoro Py for the cause of gender violence that began Fabiola Yáñez.
The ex -president is charged with “minor injuries doubly aggravated for being committed through gender violence and against his then partner; a serious injury for the permanent health of the former first lady – also doubly aggravated – and the crime of coercion.” These are crimes that, together, provide a maximum of 18 years in prison in case of an eventual conviction.
Fernández’s lawyer, Silvina Carreira, tried without success to take the magistrate of the case, based on an alleged “fear of bias.”
The investigation is delegated to the Federal Prosecutor of González, who charged the former president and claimed his citation based on the evidence collected in the file, such as images of images that Yañez sent to Cantero and were found in an expert opinion to the latter’s cell phone in The framework of another criminal case, insurance.
Source: Ambito