The Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires rejected this Wednesday to separate the prosecutor before that court, Jose Luis Aguero Iturbewho weeks ago ruled that the prosecution of the former president should be annulled Mauricio Macri in the case for illegal espionage to the relatives of the deceased crew members of the submarine ARA San Juansunk in 2017, reported judicial sources.
The challenge had been raised by the complaint of family members headed by the lawyer Valeria Carrerasafter noting that in another file the prosecutor had assumed a position favorable to the interests of the former president by demand that they stop investigating the visits of judges to the Casa Rosada and the Quinta de Olivos during the government of Together for Change (JxC).
The challenge was rejected by the chambermaid Paul Bertucci through a ruling in which it stated that “admitting a challenge such as the one raised by the complaint would be equivalent to considering acceptable the displacement of prosecutors who in some case -whether due to interventions in the same file or in several of them- had exposed a criterion that another of the parties considers adverse to its interests”.
When presenting the challenge, Carreras had indicated that it was based on “the existence of legitimate reasons to consider that there are sufficient circumstances that, due to their seriousness, affect the principles of objectivity, legality and impartiality of the Agent of the Public Ministry that I intend to remove.”
The lawyer cited an opinion presented by Agüero Iturbe in the case in which the meetings that the former president had with the judges of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation Mariano Borinsky and Gustavo Hornos should be investigated, where the prosecutor maintained that there were no elements to suspect that in those meetings the magistrates would have been unduly influenced.
