MIAMI, United States. – The Argentine vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was sentenced this Tuesday to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office for defrauding the State, the Spanish newspaper reported. The country.
Meanwhile, for the crime of illicit association, of which she was also accused, she was acquitted.
Despite the six-year prison sentence, Fernández de Kirchner will not go to jail because she has privileges as vice president. The also former first lady and former president of Argentina will be able to appeal her sentence before the Supreme Court, a process that takes years.
In accordance with The countryFernández de Kirchner received “a sentence halfway between what the prosecution had requested and the acquittal demanded by his defense.”
This is the first sentence against an acting vice president in the history of Argentina.
In the case of the crime of defrauding the State, the court sentenced Fernández de Kirchner to the maximum penalty contemplated by the legislation, which includes that the current vice president cannot hold public office in perpetuity.
According to prosecutor Diego Luciani, the total defrauded from state coffers amounted to 1 billion dollars during his two presidential terms, between 2007 and 2015, he said. The country.
Luciani detected irregularities in the awarding of 51 road works in the province of Santa Cruz. These tenders were awarded to businessman Lázaro Báez, a personal friend of former President Néstor Kirchner, who went from being a bank teller to becoming a construction czar, according to the Spanish publication.
According to the judges in the case, Fernández de Kirchner received money in exchange for the benefits he granted to Báez. For her part, the defense of the former president maintained from the first day that a democratic president and his ministers do not come to power for the pleasure of committing crimes.
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