Guillermo Moreno acquitted of the alleged incidents at a meeting of the Clarín group

he Federal oral court 8 acquitted this Wednesday, December 16 to the former Secretary of Internal Trade, Guillermo Moreno, in the cause which was followed by suspected riots in Assembly of the Grupo Clarín, in April 2013, which the former civil servant attended as a representative of the national state.

At this meeting, the former official assured that this group represented “a dark society where they hide data from their own shareholders and play with all retirees’ money“

The decision was made by the judges Sabrina Namer, Nicolás Toselli and Gabriela López Iñiguez, they informed the agency Telam Judicial sources, who also recalled that the former official had come to court accused of the complaint of Grupo Clarín, while all the prosecutors who intervened in the case had judged that there was no crime.

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The court decided “to acquit Mario Guillermo Moreno for the fact of disrupting a legal meeting, of which he was accused by the complainant ”. This decision was heard by the former official this afternoon, when reading the verdict delivered via Zoom.

At the end of the oral and public trial, the TOF 8 judges set December 23 at 3:30 p.m. as the date and time for the full reading of the sentence.

Moreno had been denounced for appearing at the Ordinary General Meeting of Grupo Clarín, accompanied by the then Deputy Minister of the Economy Axel Kicillof and the former director of SIGEN Daniel Reposo, on behalf of State, which at the time held 9% of the shares via Anses.

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The former official had been sued by then federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral for the alleged commission of the crime provided for in article 160 of the Penal Code, which provides for sentences of fifteen days to three months in prison for anyone who “materially prevents or disrupt a legal meeting, with insults or threats to the speaker or to the institution organizing the event ”.

In this assembly, in which the Grupo Clarín 2012 report and assessment, Then he Internal Trade Secretary, had assured that this group represented “a dark society where they hide data from their own shareholders and play with all retirees’ money“.

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