The highest criminal court in Argentina, ratified this Wednesday the six-year prison sentence and perpetual disqualification from holding public office for defrauding the State, imposed in 2022, to former president Cristina Fernándezthe main political figure of the last two decades.
The measure does not imply that the former vice president (2019-2023), and head of Peronism, loses her freedom or must refrain from aspiring to public office in the coming months, since plans to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Courtwhich can take years to pronounce.
A few minutes before Chamber IV of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation announced its resolution, Fernández, 71, had broadcast a video on X, formerly Twitter, in which announced that he was heading to a town on the outskirts of Buenos Aires to “share an activity with the mayor Mariel Fernández and 400 women.” The former president finished her message by throwing a kiss in the air.
Fernández received, at the end of 2022, the prison sentence, imposed by a federal court who considered that he committed a million-dollar fraud against the State, through the irregular allocation of public works in the southern province of Santa Cruz, to a businessman close to him during his presidential term (2007-2015). The then vice president, considered that he was a victim of judicial persecution orchestrated by opponents to remove her from the political scene.
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The construction businessman, Lázaro Báez, and several former officials of the Fernández government, They were also sentenced to serve different prison terms.
Chamber IV of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation now confirmed these sentences in a hearing that took place at the headquarters of the federal courts in Buenos Aires, to which Fernández and the other convicts did not attend.
Nearby, Kirchnerism militants—the center-left current of Peronism that has the former president as a reference— They demonstrated against what they consider an example of “lawfare”, or use of the mechanisms of the justice system to destroy political personalities.
In the event that the Supreme Court ratifies Fernández’s conviction, You could fulfill it at home because you are over 70 years old.
The former president, He spoke out the day before against the prison sentenceand pointed out against the judges of the federal court who convicted her two years ago, as well as those of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation, linking them with the conservative former president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), his successor in office and who, in his opinion, prompted the judicial investigation against him.
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In a writing spread on his social networksin which she assumed that the sentence against her was going to be confirmed, the Peronist leader pointed out that the crime of fraudulent administration in relation to road works She could never have committed it as president.
In this regard, he pointed out that these fifty works carried out by Báez’s company, were “approved by Parliament in the national budgetstendered, executed and paid for by the government of the province of Santa Cruz, and its accountability was approved by the General Auditor’s Office of the Nation and the National Congress from 2003 to 2015.
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