“The Argentine judiciary suckssaid the Vice President Cristina Kirchner by denouncing that Judge Rodrigo Giménez Uriburu and prosecutor Diego Luciani “play on the same team” for appearing in a photo in the fifth of former President Mauricio Macri.
“I have instructed my lawyer to recuse the soccer players first thing in the morning. The Argentine judiciary sucks”she said at the end of a Twitter thread in which she showed the closeness of the Justice officials who are investigating her with leaders of Together for Change.
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“Everything matches everything,” he wrote. “Today, Página/12 proves that the illicit association is theirs. The President of the Court and the Prosecutor of the “Public Works” case playing soccer in the country house of Mauricio Macri. Camarista Llorens plays on the ‘same team’ but that day he missed the game.”
The prosecutor Luciani accuses Cristina Kirchner of integrating “an illicit association” to defraud the State during her governmentin alleged crimes that began in the previous presidency of her late husband Néstor Kirchner.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office “is accredited that an illicit association existed between 2003 and 2015 that had those who were heads of state at the peak of its operation,” Luciani said at the beginning of the pleadings stage.
In the second photo that she posted in a Twitter thread, the head of the Frente de Todos marked Roby Martínez, brother-in-law of the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, whom he mentions as “Cambiemos presidential candidate for 2023.”
“To think that they put together a case for me because they said that one day they had seen Judge Cassanello in Olivos”he said.
In a third image of those published in the newspaper Page 12, Cristina Kirchner wrote: “Do you want to meet more players? There is also Jaime Méndez, Mayor of Cambiemos in San Miguel, who coincidentally was with Macri yesterday on a political tour of the town.
The trial of Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner for alleged corruption when she was president opened the arguments stage on Monday, August 1, in a case that, if convicted, could disqualify her.
In this case, in which there are 12 others involved, it is being investigated whether there was a direction in the award of public works in the southern province of Santa Cruz, the political cradle of the Kirchners, granted to businessman Lázaro Báez, and also whether there were overprices.
Prosecutor Luciani announced that throughout the following argument hearings he intends to “prove how the defendants planned and executed this maneuver that caused colossal damage to the treasury and to all Argentines.”
According to the prosecutor, “there was an agreement to maintain a staging between all those involved” for the performance of the works that, he assured, generated “immeasurable losses to the state” and “remain unfinished”.
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However, an audit carried out at the request of the justice system by Vialidad Nacional, an entity attached to the Ministry of Public Works, determined that the work had been completed.
The Financial Information Unit (FIU) had considered “irresponsible to advance an accusation” by dismissing the arguments of the prosecution on the existence of the crimes of fraudulent administration and illicit association.
The prosecutor expressed his dissatisfaction with the FIU’s decision, which he accused of “grossly misrepresent the meaning of the evidence“If the FIU was the complainant, it was expected that if it acquitted it, it would explain why it discarded the amount of evidence,” he said.
The trial began on May 21, 2019, had more than a hundred witnesses and had to be temporarily suspended in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic. If she is convicted, Kirchner will be politically disqualified.
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