The verdict of the trial that places the vice president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, in the dock for alleged corruption committed during her terms as president (2007-2015 ) will be announced next Tuesday (6), as announced this Tuesday (29) the court handling the case.
After hearing the final statements of Cristina, who called them a “firing squad”, judges Jorge Gorini, Andrés Basso and Rodrigo Giménez Uriburu, members of the Federal Oral Court 2, stated that they will deliberate next Tuesday to issue their sentence.
This is not the only case that Cristina is facing in court, but the controversy intensified last year after she managed to shelve three cases – Dollar Future, Memorandum with Iran and Hotesur and Los Sauces – before that the oral hearings begin, although the three are under analysis at the higher courts.
In turn, the case known as Corruption Notebooks has not yet been finalized. was brought to trial.
In the case that is currently being processed, which has 13 defendants, the alleged irregularities in the granting of 51 public works for companies owned by businessman Lázaro Báez during the governments of the late Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and his wife Cristina (2007-2015) in the province of Santa Cruz, the political cradle of Kirchnerism.
The Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, expressed his support for his vice president this Tuesday -feira on her Twitter account: “As Francisco Carrara said, when politics enters the courts, justice goes out the window”.
The vice president is accused of having committed crimes of illicit association and fraudulent administration of public funds, for which, on 22 August, the Public Ministry requested a sentence of years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office.
On September 1, the former president emerged unscathed from an attack by stuck in front of the door of the building in Buenos Aires where she lives, during a demonstration by supporters who expressed their support after the Public Ministry asked for her conviction for corruption.
