The former national senator and former governor of Tucumán José Alperovich will give an investigative statement this Wednesday in the case where he is accused of the alleged sexual abuse of his niece committed between 2017 and 2019 in the city of Buenos Airesjudicial sources reported.
The summons to inquiry arises after the third request carried out by prosecutors Santiago Vismara, head of the Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office 10 of the Federal Capital and by Mariela Labozzetta in charge of the Specialized Prosecution Unit for Violence against Women (UFEM).
The prosecutors had made a request for an investigation of Alperovich in December 2020 and in December of last year they reiterated the request based on the expansion of the accusation they made against the former senator.
The prosecutors had highlighted in the opinion that a series of measures had already been carried out and mentioned that, due to all the evidence incorporated so far, there were no more issues to resolve that would prevent the call for investigation.
The complaint and the cause
The complaint against the former Tucuman governor was filed in 2019 by his second niece and former collaborator, who accused him of acts of sexual abuse that allegedly occurred during 2017.
At that time, the case was processed in two different jurisdictions: in the criminal and correctional jurisdiction of the City of Buenos Aires and in the Tucuman Justice.
But after a resolution of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation last May, it was resolved that all the facts should be investigated in the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 35 of the City of Buenos Aires, in accordance with what was stated in its opinion by the interim Attorney General, Eduardo Casal.
Then, in December of last year, Vismara and Labozzetta, based on the elements and evidence collected, expanded the accusation against the accused and required that he be called to investigation for six other events that allegedly took place during 2018 in Tucumán.
It will be the first time that Alperovich will testify in the case since he ceased to have parliamentary privileges.
