The Vice President of the Nation, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, announced this Sunday night that she will recuse “first thing in the morning (Monday)” the president of the Federal Oral Court (TOF) 2, Rodrigo Giménez Uriburu, and the prosecutor Diego Luciani, citing on his Twitter account a note from the portal Page 12, in which images of both judicial officials are shown as part of the “same soccer team”.
“The Argentine judiciary sucks”wrote former president Fernández de Kirchner in a thread of tweets, where she also stated that she instructed her lawyer to “remove the soccer players first thing in the morning.”
The vice president referred to the note on Page 12 entitled “Trial against Cristina Kirchner: The soccer matches of the prosecutor Luciani and the judge Giménez Uriburu in the fifth of Macri”in which images of these judicial officials are seen with the same shirt, in the framework of a soccer match that “they both played in the fifth of Mauricio Macri, Los Abrojos, when he was the President of the Nation”, according to what is indicated the journalistic text.
“Everything matches everything. Today, Página/12 proves that the illicit association is theirs. The President of the Court and the Prosecutor of the “Public Works” case playing soccer in the country house of Mauricio Macri. The chambermaid ( Mariano) Llorens plays in the “same team” but that day he missed the game”, Cristina Fernández’s release began, along with an image that presents the accused.
And if it’s not enough for you… 2nd photographic testimony: Roby Martínez, brother-in-law of the presidential candidate of Cambiemos for 2023, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, plays on the “same team”. To think that they put together a case for me because they said that one day they had seen Judge Cassanello in Olivos pic.twitter.com/uR35BsibEY
– Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) August 8, 2022
Fernández de Kirchner continued with another photographic testimony: “In the ‘same team’ plays Roby Martínez, brother-in-law of the presidential candidate of Cambiemos for 2023, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. To think that they put together a case for me because they said that one day they had seen the Judge Cassanello in Olivos”.
In addition, the former president showed “more players”, such as “Jaime Méndez, Mayor of Cambiemos in San Miguel, who coincidentally was with Macri on a political tour of the town this Saturday.”
“The mix shows that there is not much impartiality that can emerge from this conspiracy, to which is added that the same team -Liverpool- is also made up of the judge of the Federal Chamber, Mariano Llorens, who is not in the photo in the fifth Los Abrojos because that day he missed the appointment”explains the note on Page 12.
I’ve instructed my lawyer to recuse the football players first thing in the morning. The Argentine judiciary sucks.
– Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) August 8, 2022
Raúl Kollmann’s text described this group as “The judicial family” and recalled that this soccer match “appeared in the newspapers“.
On August 19, 2019, in the midst of an economic and currency crisis that caused the resignation of Nicolás Dujovne and the arrival at the Ministry of Economy of Hernán Lacunza, “Macri did not suspend the soccer championship for those over 42 that Sunday and the media report that the president met with officials in the mansion, while on the field, Liverpool maintained first place in the New Los Abrojos Tournament”noted the note.
The prosecutor Diego Luciani intervenes in the oral and public trial in which it is investigated whether there was directing of the public road works in Santa Cruz in favor of the companies of Lázaro Báez during the Kirchner governments.
How does the cause continue?
The prosecution began its argument on August 1 and will continue this Monday with the fourth of nine hearings, which will culminate, as they themselves announced, with the request for convictions for all those accused of the alleged commission of the crimes of illicit association and fraud. , among whom is Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola requested the development of a plea that will culminate, as they themselves announced, with the request for sentences for the 13 accused for the alleged commission of the crimes of illicit association and fraud, among which is the vice president.
“Néstor and Cristina Kirchner installed one of the most extraordinary matrices of corruption”Luciani maintained at the first hearing, in which he referred to an “illicit pyramidal association that had at its peak those who were heads of state and in which various public officials participated.”
The greatest counterpoint between the prosecution and the defense will be given by what happened throughout the entire debate: for the defendants’ lawyers, the oral trial and most of the testimonies served to demonstrate that the reported direction did not exist while they accuse the prosecution to repeat, with no other input than the staging, the accusation made during the investigation stage.
