Prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola will conclude this Monday with the accusatory statement in the case investigating the alleged direction of public road works in Santa Cruz between 2003 and 2015 in favor of businessman Lázaro Báez.
In this way, they will star in the last of the 9 hearings that the court granted them to unfold their argument, and they will formulate the request for sentences that they announced weeks ago when they began the fiery exhibition that aimed, for the most part, at Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
While, defense briefs will not begin this week.
It is that when the presentation of the prosecutors ends, the Federal Oral Court (TOF) 2 will arrange an intermediate room of one or two weeks (it is not yet defined but the maximum is 10 business days) so that the lawyers of the accused can finish to refine their presentations in the framework of the final debate.
The 30 hearings scheduled for the arguments of the defenses would begin with the presentation of the lawyer who represents the businessman Báez, one of the main defendants in the file, while the turn of the defenders of the vice president would only come in sixth place.
in this cause Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is accused of being the co-author of the crimes of illicit association aggravated by her role as chief and fraudulent administration aggravated by having been committed to the detriment of the public administration during the years in which she was President of the Nation.
Among the defendants are also the former Minister of Federal Planning Julio De Vido; the former Secretary of Public Works José Francisco López; the former head of the National Road Directorate (DNV) Nelson Periotti and the former secretary of Coordination of Federal Public Works Carlos Santiago Kirchner.
There are also the former Undersecretary of Public Works Abel Fatala; the former heads of District No. 23 “Santa Cruz” of the DNV Raúl Osvaldo Daruich and Mauricio Collareda and the former presidents of the General Administration of Roads of the Province of Santa Cruz Héctor René Jesús Garro, Juan Carlos Villafañe, Raúl Gilbeto Pavesi and José Raúl Santibanez.
Throughout their argument, prosecutors Mola and Luciani They maintained that the governments of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner directed the public road works of Santa Cruz in favor of Báez and that this was the product of a friendly relationship that united them since before assuming the presidency.at the same time that they ensured that all the accused knew about the maneuvers and not only did not avoid or control them, but also fulfilled specific functions.
The defenses will demand the acquittal of the accused and will insist on something that they have already said publicly: that the works were carried out, that the tenders were real and not simulated, as the prosecutors assured, and that the accusers failed to prove the crimes attributed to the accused. Rather, they limited themselves to repeating the order for trial drawn up by prosecutors Gerardo Pollicita and Ignacio Mahiques.
Some of the defendants’ lawyers plan to expose some key moments of the trial that has already lasted three years where the witnesses, under oath to tell the truth, rejected the alleged irregularities, while stating that the absence of an expert opinion that includes the 51 investigated works led the prosecution to propose wrong conclusions.
