Federal prosecutor Diego Luciani resumed his final argument in the oral trial for alleged crimes with public works in Santa Cruz between 2003 and 2015, which is followed by Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and twelve other defendants.
Before the Federal Oral Court 2 The prosecution opened the third day of its argument, which will be dedicated to continuing the analysis of the 51 tenders that, according to the accusation, would have been directed in favor of companies from the Lázaro Báez court.
The trial is carried out in a semi-face-to-face manner and – except for the Vice President, who obtained authorization not to attend this hearing for reasons of her parliamentary agenda in the National Senate – the remaining defendants were connected by Zoom.
The trial is carried out semi-face-to-face and -except for the Vice President- the remaining defendants were connected by Zoom
Luciani began to analyze the tender number 19 of 2006 and, later, advanced in the following ones, in a presentation in which his colleague the prosecutor Sergio Mola will also participate, in the hearing that will last all day.
“The process was becoming more and more oiled, the illegal apparatus continued to work better and better,” said the prosecutor when exposing the 20th tender that was made for 24 million dollars.to the value at that time of the foreign currency, he recalled.
“With the machinery that Austral had, I could never have carried out this project,” he said about the company “Austral Construcciones” de Báez
Last Tuesday, during his second day of pleadings, Luciani maintained that in the province of Santa Cruz there was a “gross address in
On the first day of allegations, last Monday, the prosecution anticipated that it would charge the 13 defendants for alleged illicit association and fraud.
Throughout the week, referents of the Frente de Todos and officials of the ruling coalition expressed messages of support for the Vice President through social networks, gathered with the hashtag #TodosConCristina.
On Thursday, human rights organizations expressed their solidarity with Fernández de Kirchner, and denounced that there are “persecutory judicial practices towards political leaders.”
Also on Thursday, the Puebla Group, the forum that brings together progressive Latin American officials and former presidents, warned that the Vice President is the victim of a “legal war (lawfare)” and considered that the trial is “a process riddled with contradictions and motivated by obscure political interests of powerful economic conglomerates”.
