The Federal Court of Cassation Penal confirmed the six-year prison sentence imposed on former president Cristina Kirchner in the Roads case. The perpetual disqualification from holding public office was also endorsed. For the sentence to be final, it must first pass through the Supreme Court of Justice.
The decision of Chamber IV of the country’s highest federal criminal court was announced this morning in a public hearing in Comodoro Py where the operative part of the ruling was read. From this moment on, there is a period of ten business days to appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, so it will not be final yet.
The ruling confirmed by the judges had already been anticipated days before and Cristina herself made a statement on her social networks. This morning, the former president received the news while leading a political tour in Moreno.
In the reading, the court rejected “unanimously the appeals filed by the defenses” and, consequently, confirmed “the appealed sequence insofar as it was a matter of challenge.”
In addition, Cassation confirmed the six-year prison sentences for the former Secretary of Public Works José López, the former head of National Highways Nelson Periotti and Lázaro Báez. The acquittal of former Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido and the acquittals of Abel Fatala and Héctor René Garro were also confirmed.
Meanwhile, it confirmed the sentences of Juan Carlos Villafañe to 5 years and Raúl Pavesi to 4 years and 6 months in prison, José Santibáñez to 4 years and Raúl Daruich to 3 years in prison, all former Highway officials.
At the beginning of this year, these members of Chamber IV of Cassation heard in successive hearings the arguments of appeal to the verdict that the Federal Oral Court 2 issued on December 6, 2022 at the end of an oral trial of the former president, former officials of her government and businessman Lázaro Báez started in 2019.
In that instance of appeal, the prosecutor before Cassation Mario Villar insisted on sentencing Cristina Kirchner to 12 years in prison, supporting the trial prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola, who had demanded that sentence in the oral debate because they understood that there was two crimes, fraudulent administration and illicit association. The House endorsed the first, discarded the second.
But, by a majority of two votes to one, the TOF2 judges Jorge Gorini and Rodrigo Giménez Uriburu with the dissent of Andrés Basso, decided to condemn the former president, Báez, the former head of National Highways Nelson Periotti and the former Secretary of Public Works José López to six years in prison for “aggravated fraudulent administration.”
Source: Ambito
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