Daniel Scioli's lawyers appealed to him to prevent Gisela Berger from testifying

The lawyers of the former Buenos Aires governor, Daniel Scioli, today appealed to justice the decision of Judge Marcela Garmendia, who had authorized the testimony of Gisela Berger before the court's lawyer. Alvaro Garganta, who was investigating the former president for illicit enrichment and money laundering.

The presentation he had access to Telam, have made the lawyers Alfredo Gascón and Miguel Angel Molina, advocates of the former president in the case on the Garganta case, who had asked to declare the former couple of Scioli on February 15 But Berger did not appear after discussing "previous commitments", so he was summoned again for the 27th of this month.

Garganta had quoted Berger as a result of a request from MP Elisa Carrió, the plaintiff in the case, in a series of tweets published by the girl.

At first instance, Judge Garmendia rejected an application for annulment to prevent the testimony, but the model, who would reside in Córdoba, submitted a letter apologizing for his absence.

In October 2018, Garganta asked Scioli to hold a hearing in the case concerning various irregularities in his tenure as governor of the province of Buenos Aires.

The case, which adds several suspected cases of irregularities and fraud while Scioli ruled the province, had been opened following a lawsuit filed by Carrió in June 2016 for money laundering. money.

Among the investigations, there is the case of irregularities in the construction of nine early warning units (UPA), for which 189 million pesos were paid under the Scioli administration.

In a message on the social network Twitter that he published on January 9 and continues as the latest text uploaded by the young woman, Berger warned: "Daniel Scioli says that it goes through the arm … then that people are starving, lie. "" Holidays in

Courcevel, France !! Where is the country's money? ", Added the model in her message, that she accompanied a photo of her next to Scioli with the snow-covered Alps in the background.

Berger is the mother of a girl almost a year old, fruit of his relationship with the former presidential candidate.

In the brief, Scioli's lawyers indicated that Judge Garmendia's decision to allow Gisela Berger's testimony was inappropriate, as there is "an unreasonable excess as to the scope of the Prosecution, without badysis. nor any weighting according to applicable standards. "

He questioned "the postage so that Gisela Berger, in the condition of recognized cohabitation (of Daniel Scioli) can give a statement in a case where her partner is the subject of an investigation" .

He also rejected "the illegal admission of statements by Gisela Berger, unaware of the badimilation of the condition of cohabitation with that of the spouses, in accordance with the rules in force in the Civil and Commercial Code, and against those proposed by the parties ". .

The presentation of Scioli's lawyers, according to the lawyers, must now be resolved by the Appeals Chamber.