The former director of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) during the Government of Cambiemos, Gustavo Arribas, was authorized to travel to São Paulo (Brazil) and Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) by Judge Julián Ercolini, which generated the repudiation of the relatives of the victims of the crew of the ARA San Juan submarine, who denounced that the former official “was allowed not to comply with the law.”
Days ago, Arribas had requested judicial authorization to leave the country from February 18 to April 25 of this year, which was accepted this Thursday by Ercoloni, who in his ruling indicated that “there is no obstacle to access what was requested” by the former head of the AFI, prosecuted in two ongoing cases for illegal espionage.
The court ruling highlighted that “Arribas undertook, if required, to interrupt his trip and return to Argentine soil”, and that “the information regarding the trips regarding their destinations and passages has been accompanied”.
The relatives of the sailors of the ARA San Juan submarine presented a document in which they reject this authorization and assure that Arribas “was allowed not to comply with the law.”
Likewise, Ercolini ruled that Arribas “must appear within 48 hours of his return at the police station with jurisdiction at his home in order to report his arrival and deliver the passport to the court – which must be provided for the trip. -, as well as validly and immediately inform this office of any modification of the authorized itinerary”.
In this regard, the relatives of the sailors of the submarine ARA San Juan presented a document in which they reject this authorization and assure that Arribas “was allowed not to comply with the law.”
“Arribas did not present in Spanish and was not duly accredited (by him) an invitation from the United Arab Emirates and did not report on the reasons for the trip,” they said.
“He only presented the tickets and a promise to return,” they denounced from one of the complaints that represents relatives of the crew members in the case of illegal espionage that is being carried out against them and in which former president Mauricio Macri is also prosecuted.
“We are not wrong from this lawsuit when we have opposed the transfer of this espionage case to (the federal courts of) Comodoro Py. Today it was exposed in that area there is no equality before the law,” they remarked.
“We regret to report that, in case of pursuing the espionage case in the brotherhood of the Comodoro Py courts, the chances of obtaining justice are diluted, in the same proportion as the chances of life of the crew members were lost in each call from the submarine”, they concluded.
Arribas is prosecuted in the cases in which illegal espionage was investigated from the AMBA bases of the AFI and in the follow-up of the families of the crew members of the ARA San Juan.
