The Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires plans to resolve next week, before the judicial fair, if it confirms or revokes the prosecution of former President Mauricio Macri in the case that follows him for alleged illegal espionage to the relatives of the crew members of the submarine Ara San Juan, sunk in November 2017.
Sources from the court of appeals advanced to Télam that the idea is that the resolution is signed before the start of the judicial fair and assured that at this time the three judges -Mariano Llorens, Leopoldo Bruglia and Pablo Bertuzzi- work with their respective teams to define their positions.
The judicial spokesmen also advanced that, along with the resolution of that incident, The magistrates are expected to resolve other points related to the procedural situation of the former heads of the Federal Intelligence AgencyGustavo Arribas and Silvia Majdalani, in the same case.
Before the start of the judicial fair, which will run from July 18 to 29, the judges of the first chamber of the court of appeals could also rule on the proceedings issued in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) case, in which is investigating political espionage maneuvers in the province of Buenos Aires, although there the analyzes are more delayed.
The former president was prosecuted last December 1 by the federal judge of Dolores, Martín Bava, who found him “criminally responsible for the crime of carrying out prohibited intelligence actions as an author by virtue of having enabled the production of illegal intelligence tasks “.
The case of the AMBA bases and that of espionage to the relatives of the victims of the sinking of the San Juan were processed in Dolores until the end of 2021 when the Criminal Cassation Chamber decided that they should go to the federal courts of Comodoro Py, dragged by case D ´ Alessio who went on to process in the court of Judge Julián Ercolini.
The former president was prosecuted last December 1 by the federal judge of Dolores, Martín Bava, who found him “criminally responsible for the crime of carrying out prohibited intelligence actions as an author by virtue of having enabled the production of illegal intelligence tasks “.
According to the judicial investigation, the then president would have used the information obtained by illegal means to anticipate the claims of the relatives. of the crew members of the San Juan and thus reduce the possible impacts on the image of the Cambiemos government.
“It was Mauricio Macri who not only allowed these illegal tasks to be carried out, but also used that information to make decisions. In some cases, these decisions had to do with containing advance information on the claims that he would receive or the demonstrations organized by the victims before the then President’s visit to the city of Mar del Plata,” Judge Bava said when he processed him.
“On other occasions, (the decisions in question were intended) to maintain constant and systematic monitoring of the protest measures of the group of relatives who are victims of these illegal tasks” the judge wrote.
The relatives of the crew members of the San Juan claimed through their legal representatives that the prosecutions issued in the case be confirmed, although they have low expectations that this will happen, something they pointed out on more than one occasion after the case passed. to the Buenos Aires federal courts.
“As a lawsuit we know that since the case of illegal espionage passed to Commodore Py, we are facing the chronicle of a death foretold. The signs are unmistakable. The most aberrant warning about the end of this case was the marked difference between the former president and the illegally spied on families. The defendant is served even on Saturday night. He ignores this lawsuit,” said the lawyer Valeria Carreras in dialogue with Télam.
More than two months ago, the prosecutor before the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber, José Luis Agüero Iturbe, ruled that the Macri prosecution should be annulled, as demanded by the lawyer Pablo Lanusse, who defends the former president.
“Perhaps we are facing the final shot on the truth, on justice and on the families that I represent, returning to re-victimize them, if the defendants are dismissed. However, the families will not stop arbitrating each medium and each instance, even the international route. They will not be able to do more damage to them than has already been done to them. They will not be able to prevent them from continuing their via crucis before justice. They have the evidence and have shown themselves to fight with their hands full of dignity,” he remarked.
More than two months ago, the prosecutor before the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber, José Luis Agüero Iturbe, ruled that the Macri prosecution should be annulled, as demanded by the lawyer Pablo Lanusse, who defends the former president.
The prosecutor maintained that in the act of the investigation, Macri “was not imposed the existing evidence against him” so he would not have been given the opportunity to refute it in a timely manner: based on this, He demanded the annulment of the prosecution and the call for a new investigation.
