“They should find a good lawyer because they are in their hands”

Justice and Human Rights Minister Martín Soria again targeted former President Mauricio Macri and former government officials for alleged smuggling and shipping riot material to Bolivia and warned them that “look for a good lawyer because they are up to the task“.

“If the only defense they have in defending themselves against the arms smuggling they made in November 2019 to support a coup, it is the notes, the documents, which prove how they tried to cover up the illegal shipment of arms to Bolivia, these people should find a good lawyer because without a doubt they are up to the task, ”Soria said in an interview with Radio 10.

In the last few hours, documents from the National Controlled Materials Agency (ANMAC) have been released which show that the government of Alberto Fernández has twice extended the temporary authorization of the 70,000 rubber bullets and gas tear gas sent to Bolivia.

The ANMAC report, which depends on the Ministry of Justice, has 42 pages with documentation on the subject. On January 23 and May 4, 2020, there is an extension of the authorizations for the temporary departure of the material sent by the macrismo and with the express detail of the 70 thousand ammunition of caliber 12/70, which is the central axis of the prosecution .

“All of this documentation and these notes are signed and signed by the people who have been discovered and reported by us. All this documentation, these ANMAC 2020 authorizations are signed and signed for that part of the gendarmerie who tried to cover up the contraband“.

Soria has repeatedly insisted that it was the Bolivian justice system that found the documents that reported on the material which, according to the complaint, had been sent to support the dismissal of Evo Morales.

The official continued his criticism of Macri and accused him of having stayed out of the country amid the advancement of justice in this case: “Macri made the great Pepín Simón and remained of the other side of the pond, ”he said. in reference to the former president’s senior advisor, who sought asylum as a political refugee in Uruguay due to alleged judicial persecution against him.

Soria also referred to the reaction of other opposition referents to the complaint: “What will (Horacio) Rodríguez Larreta, (Elisa) Carrió, (Maria Eugenia) Vidal and (Diego) Santilli think their own? government supported a coup? said ironically.

And he remarked to Vidal, who in the last hours had asked if the documents had been found in Bolivia shortly before the elections: “The note was found by the Bolivian justice, and if we do not find them, we do not would never have found on the macrismo support for the coup in Bolivia. I pity poor Vidal, you see he doesn’t see the media“, he condemned.

In this case, former president Mauricio Macri is already implicated, since July 16; his Ministers of Security and Defense, Bullrich and Oscar Aguad; the then ambassador to Bolivia, Normando Álvarez García; the former director general of the National Gendarmerie, Gerardo José Otero; and the then force’s logistics and operations directors, Rubén Carlos Yavorski and Carlos Miguel Recalde, respectively.

Last week Macri appointed ex-prosecutor Pablo Lanusse as defense attorney in this case, Bullrich attorney Julián Curi and, according to court sources, Caliba will share a lawyer with Otero and other Gendarmerie defendants. national.

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