The Argentine Vice President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchnerwas dismissed this Monday in the money laundering case known as the “K money route”, international media report.
The decision was made by federal judge Sebastián Casanello due to the lack of accusation by the prosecution and the complaints, according to aim Cnn in Spanish.
According to the resolution. which CNN claims to have had access, the judge ordered the dismissal after the prosecutor in the case, Guillermo Marijuan, withdrew his accusation against Fernández de Kirchner.
The outlet explains that “in judicial terms, the dismissal puts an end to the criminal proceedings without reaching a resolution on the merits.”
In addition, it details that, when making his decision, Judge Casanello assures that “after considering the evidence measures exhausted, he closed the investigation opened seven years ago to determine whether the former president had participated in the money laundering operations attributed in this cause to the businessman Lázaro Báez and his entourage».
Seven years after his indictment, the Vice President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was dismissed in the money laundering case in which the businessman Lázaro Báez was convicted:https://t.co/KN1rJL3gEM
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“Cristina is innocent, as I have been saying for more than 7 years, of each and every one of the causes (in which she is accused),” commented the Argentine vice president’s lawyer, Gregorio Dalbón, in this regard. aforementioned by the agency EFE.
The “K money route”
The “K money route” is a case for money laundering maneuvers by businessman Lázaro Báez, who had a close relationship with the Kirchner couple and has already been sentenced to 10 years in prison, details the Spanish media.
The investigation began in 2013, with Fernández de Kirchner still as president of Argentina, although the definitive impetus for the cause came in 2016, after a television channel broadcast images showing Martín Báez, Lázaro’s son, counting large sums of money in a financial institution in Buenos Aires.
Báez, who was arrested in the middle of a major media operation in 2016 and who is under house arrest, defended his innocence and claimed to be a “victim” of a campaign orchestrated by the Government of Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), points out EFE.
In 2012, he was sentenced to 12 years —later reduced to 10— for leading a money laundering scheme obtained from public works contracts awarded during the Kirchner governments, in a trial that sat on the bench for more than twenty people, including several of his children.
Fernández de Kirchner, who last December was sentenced For another reason due to corruption, she has reiterated that she is the victim of judicial persecution aimed at outlawing her politically and to favor the opposition.
Although the prosecutor Marijuan had come to charge her for the “K money route”, in November 2018 Judge Casanello had already ruled the former president’s “lack of merit” because he did not have sufficient evidence, the Spanish media points out.
(With information from CNN and EFE)
