Complaint against Alberto Fernández: envelopes with confidential statements are opened and former presidential doctor testifies

Complaint against Alberto Fernández: envelopes with confidential statements are opened and former presidential doctor testifies

The prosecution decided to first open those envelopes, read the contents and listen to the arguments of the parties in order to, then decide whether to subpoena those people to testify.

The former president’s lawyer, Silvina Carreraprovided the testimonies that remain in a sealed envelope at the headquarters of the prosecution, on the fifth floor of the Retiro courts. The defense of the former president argued that the names of the witnesses identified with letters should remain reserved for security reasons. “national security”since they are former employees of the presidential residence.

Former presidential doctor Federico Saavedra testifies

Once this procedure is completed, at 10 a.m. the testimony of the former head of the Presidential Medical Unit will begin. Federico Saavedra. The day before, Carreira presented a document in which He made it known that his client relieved the doctor of the obligation to maintain professional secrecy only with regard to the subject matter of the case.

The relief is “strictly limited to the procedural object” of the case, according to the defense in a document presented to González’s prosecutor’s office. For his part, Yañez had already relieved Saavedra of the secret when he testified via Zoom in the case.

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She is scheduled to testify on September 12, meanwhile. Sofia Pacchi, at the time of the events, a friend of Yañez and one of the attendees at her birthday party at the Olivos estate during the pandemic.

The Prosecutor’s Office is also awaiting the outcome of the process of a request to Spain to Yañez’s mother, Miriam Verdugo, testified by videoconferencewho is in that country with his daughter and his grandson, the son of the former president and Yañez.

In the case, the request was also made for the Seizure of the cell phone that Yañez has in Spainwhile there are pending evidence measures related to income and expenses of the Olivos estate, among others.

Regarding Yañez’s phone, when issuing the request, the judge in the case, Julián Ercolini, did not accept that the data extraction be done in Spain and that the data obtained be sent to Argentina, but rather that this procedure must be carried out in the country.

Source: Ambito

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