The lawyer for Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Carlos Beraldi, stated today that “a ruling was rendered in accordance with the law”, referring to the dismissal ruled yesterday by the Federal Oral Court (TOF) of the former president and her two children.
“There is not a legal problem here, but a political one. There was never anything, it was an armed cause with a very good diffusion, and that gets to impact people,” Beraldi explained this morning in statements to a radio outlet.
The Federal Oral Court (TOF) 5 yesterday dismissed the Vice President, Máximo Kirchner and Florencia Kirchner in the case in which they were investigated for alleged money laundering with rentals of properties and hotel rooms of the Hotesur and Los Sauces companies.
In this sense, Beraldi said that the cause is “a clear example of how politics has been done in Argentina in recent years.”
“There is a modus operandi of complaints that are made first through the media and with judges who served that media power,” said the lawyer.
The decision, taken by judges Adrián Grünberg and Daniel Obligado, with the dissent of Judge Adriana Palliotti, implies that an oral and public trial will not be held, although the ruling can still be appealed and reviewed in higher instances.
Beraldi remarked today that “the resolution is legally unobjectionable” since “the evidence already exists and a trial is not necessary.”
“The ruling came out yesterday at 7:00 p.m. and at 7:05 p.m. there were already people criticizing it without reading it,” said the vice president’s lawyer.
According to Beraldi, the ruling explains “all the jurisprudential criteria of the last 15 years of money laundering and illicit association and how the criminal law is applied over time.”
The dismissal of the former president and her children Máximo and Florencia had been requested by Beraldi through a letter in which he remarked that the expert opinions incorporated into the case had made it possible to prove that all the “product of the hotel and rental activity was banked” , so that “the non-existence of black money is evident.”
Called to comment, the prosecutor Diego Velasco, asked to reject the claim of dismissal of the defendants in the Hotesur and Los Sauces cases, which they process together, and ruled that the oral trial should be held.
The dismissals also reached the businessmen Cristóbal López, Fabián De Sousa and Lázaro Báez; Romina de los Ángeles Mercado, daughter of the governor of Santa Cruz Alicia Kirchner, and the accountant Osvaldo Sanfelice, among others.
In the 375-page ruling, judges Obligado and Grümberg pointed out that at the time the alleged crimes began, in 2008, the so-called “car wash” was not punished because a more benign law was in force, so it could be badly sanctioned that behavior today.
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