Cuadernos: Cassation refused to release the former director of Yacyretá Oscar Thomas – 17/05/2019

Federal Chamber of Criminal Cbadation today refused to release Oscar Thomas, former director of the Entidad Binacional Yacyretá during Kirchnerism, in the case of the cahiers of corruption where he had been on the run for nearly two months.

The judges of Chamber I of the maximum criminal court of the country, Daniel Petrone and Diego Barroetaveña, with the dissent of Ana María Figueroa, refused to make Thomas benefit from the release in the investigation in which he is prosecuted after having appeared mentioned in the Oscar Centeno notebooks, a former official involved in illegal deliveries of money. Thomas is defended by Juan Manuel Ubeira, who has repeatedly claimed in the media the release of his client.

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Thomas, however, is under house arrest with an electronic ankle by decision of another court, Room I of the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires, whose members, Leopoldo Bruglia and Pablo Bertuzzi, granted him this benefit on April 30, being understood that he enjoyed an "extremely vulnerable psychic state" .

The Chamber of Cbadation has now refused to release him, among other arguments, because Thomas "remained in a state of contumency," that is to say, on the run, from August 7 to September 19, 2018, "it must be emphasized the many efforts needed to secure his arrest. "

"It is possible to remember that the declaration of rebellion proves to be a valid and objective principle allowing to badyze the possibility that the accused is trying to escape the action of Justice, "said the judge.

In addition, they felt that the detention time that Thomas took in the case "It does not seem unreasonable or disproportionate."

In his dissenting vote, Figueroa understood that the judge of the case, Claudio Bonadio, had raided a commercial office in Yacyretá in search of Thomas, where he "knew that he was no longer working".

In the open investigation following the writings of Centeno, the former Minister of Planning, Julio De Vido, and former leaders of this portfolio, Roberto Baratta and José López, among others, are currently being judged and placed in prison.

Former President Cristina Kirchner is also the subject of a trial on remand, but she remains at liberty because she enjoys privileges as a national senator.

The benefit of house arrest was granted in April until medical and psychiatric examinations were established to establish his state of health.

After being declared a fugitive by Bonadio, the government offered a reward of 500,000 pesos to anyone providing information. He was finally arrested by the call of a neighbor from the building where he had been hiding, in the neighborhood of Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

According to Centeno's accusations, Thomas allegedly participated in deliveries of up to a million dollars to the black K circuit.