Edgardo Kueider and his secretary asked for exemption from prison and to remove Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado

The defense of the former senator Edgardo Kueider and his secretary, Iara Costa, asked the Argentine Justice to exempt him from prison and challenge the judge. Sandra Arroyo Salgado. According to the lawyers, “there is political persecution and prejudgment on the part of the magistrate.”

Both are detained in Paraguay for attempted smuggling of more than US$200,000, which were seized undeclared on the border with that country.

The defense request takes place after Arroyo Salgado requested extradition in order to take investigative statements from both, within the framework of the case that investigates alleged illicit enrichment. abuse of authority, failure to comply with the duties of a public official, passive and active bribery, negotiations incompatible with the exercise of public functions, influence peddling and money laundering.

Besides, Arroyo Salgado asked Paraguayan prosecutors to seize the cell phones of the former senator and Guinsel Costaa measure that until now the representatives of the Public Ministry of Paraguay had not specified. The objective is that, through an expert report, It can be determined whether they have been manipulated, in person or remotely, and, if so, try to recover the content.. The Court knows that it is possible that evidence may have been lost, because the Paraguayan Justice did not move forward with the seizure of the phones at first.

The request includes all the objects that were found in his possession at the time of his arrest and those that were seized after the search. in the department where they are serving house arrest, in the Tierra Alta complex, in Asunción. The search, according to the judge’s request, must include warehouses, storage rooms, annexes, offices and garages of the property, with the objective of also hijack computer equipment, such as computers, pendrives, external driveswhich Kueider and Guinsel Costa have in their possession.

After the dismissal of Edgardo Kueider, the opposition will ask to annul the law Bases

While the judicial investigation against Edgardo Kueiderrepresentatives of the blocks of Union for the Homeland and the Left Front in the Chamber of Deputies promote a common initiative to annul the sanction of the Law Bases and the tax reform.

During the session that ended by decreeing the dismissal of the Entre Ríos native, the senator Anabel Fernández Sagasti (Union for the Homeland) pointed to the circumstances in which the Kueider’s accession to the Bases law. “They did not have the numbers for the opinion and there was a signature that gave them to them: that of Senator Kueider. He had made it in writing 40 observations to the Bases law and, despite that, he signed the opinion“he recalled.

In this context, he mentioned the decree 523/2024 that created the Mixed Technical Commission of Salto Grande the day after the approval of the Bases law: “This was what Senator Kueider asked to vote on the Bases law. We assumed it was just this, now we want to know what else.” “That day until 10 in the morning their vote was one way; and when the decree came out, he changed his vote“he pointed out

Present at the meeting were Nicolás Del Caño, Miriam Bregman (FIT), Germán Martínez and Santiago Cafiero (Unión por la Patria). Although there is a project presented by the FIT, from Peronism They pointed out to this medium that “the meeting was to exchange information and see how to coordinate the different initiatives.” and that the Peronist bloc is working on its own project to nullify the Bases law, with the impetus of the Entre Ríos Blanca Osuna.