Cristina Kirchner asks to annul the “cause notebooks” on bribery in her government

the vice president Argentina Cristina Kirchner presented this Tuesday to the Supreme Court a request for annulment for adulteration of evidence of the so-called “cause of the notebooks”; a case of alleged bribery during his government (2007-2015).

Kirchner’s defense required the high court to request a copy of the expert reports that showed alterations, deletions and overwriting in at least three of the eight existing notebooks, a judicial source reported.

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The accusation was based on notebooks that he allegedly carried for years oscar ryea driver from the Ministry of Planning, in which he noted routes, names of officials and businessmen and amounts of money allegedly the result of bribes.

The call “Cause of notebooks”, in which the main defendant is the former president, was raised in 2019 to an oral trial but does not have a date of completion.

The tests on three of the eight notebooks were carried out by order of the federal judge Marcelo Martinez de Giorgiwithin the framework of a detachment from the parent cause and at the request of the employer Armando Loson.

Loson was one of those accused of bribery for being mentioned in those notes, which he rejected and requested expert studies.

According to these experts, several of these alterations and overwritings were made by the former police officer. Jorge Bacigalupoa friend of the former driver and to whom he gave the notebooks for safekeeping, however he lent them to a journalist, whose complaint led to the opening of the legal case.

Kirchner’s lawyers, Carlos Beraldi and Ary Llernovoythey required the Court to add the results of the expert opinions and declare the case null and void, “beyond the measures that should be adopted with respect to those responsible for these very serious episodes”, according to the letter.

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They mentioned in their request two expert studies, one carried out by experts from the Argentine Federal Police and the other by specialists from the Buenos Aires’ University (UBA).

Kirchner, 70 years old and who enjoys privileges as vice president until December, was sentenced in 2022 to six years in prison and perpetual political disqualification for “fraudulent administration” in the adjudication of road works during his presidency.

The ex-president appealed the sentence to which she considers a political persecution to proscribe it. Kirchner, who suffered an assassination attempt on September 1, gave up running for any elective office in the elections next October.

Source: Elcomercio

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