Federal prosecutor Carlos Rívolo warned that “essential” evidence measures remain in the case investigating the assassination attempt on Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on September 1, before deeming the investigation concluded and ordering her to be sent to trial .
He did so in a response sent to the judge in the case, María Eugenia Capuchetti and in relation to a ruling of room I of the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires that considered the prompt sending of the case to the trial stage “essential” for understanding the investigation “exhausted”, according to judicial sources.
Capuchetti officiated at the prosecutor, who has delegated the case, and attached a copy of the resolution by the Chamber to inform him of that directive, which he said he shared, in order for him to proceed accordingly, sources in the case specified.
Rívolo has delegated the investigation by decision of Capuchettiwho is empowered to resume it at any stage of it, as the prosecution recalled in its response.
“Numerous procedures and measures of evidence are being produced and carried out that this Prosecutor’s Office considered essential for the prompt progress and conclusion of the investigation,” said the Prosecutor’s Office about the case in which the material author of the act, Fernando Sabag Montiel, his girlfriend Brenda Uliarte and a third defendant, Gabriel Carrizo.
Precisely during an incident to resolve a proposal for house arrest by the latter that was rejected, the chambermaids Leopoldo Bruglia, Mariano Llorens and Pablo Bertuzzi argued that the investigation is exhausted and must be sent to trial.
But The prosecution remarked that there are pending measures of evidence, including a new expert opinion on the cell phone kidnapped from Sabag Montiel when he was arrestedafter unsuccessfully shoot the Vice President on the night of September 1in the middle of a march in support of the official when she returned to her home in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta.
The prosecution remarked that if access to the content of the phone was achievedthat when being manipulated as soon as the investigation began, it was reset, any new evidence would be of importance at the investigation stage of the caseprior to sending the three detainees to trial.
This is one of the proposals in the complaint by the Vice President, who maintains that the investigation should be deepened in relation to the alleged masterminds.before terminating it.
The prosecutor’s office is looking for a technological solution to access the content of Sabag Montiel’s phone without running the risk of making it unusable, the prosecutor also said.
