Death of ex-prosecutor Juan Martín Romero Victorica

Former Attorney General Juan Martin Romero Victorica, who joined the Cbadation Chamber until 2011, died today at his home in Bella Vista, in the city of Buenos Aires, following pancreatic cancer, diagnosed several months ago. This was confirmed by his nephew, lawyer Manuel Romero Victoria. The lawyer participated in numerous court proceedings, until his career was marked by some complaints accusing him of collaborating with the last military dictatorship.

Romero Victorica resigned from the House of the months before being submitted to a jury of prosecution for a complaint of
Victoria Montenegro, a recovered granddaughter. In this case, he had been designated as the man who was protecting the army colonel, Germán Telzlaf, the Montenegrin appropriator, and filtered the data relating to the investigation against him. . Montenegro told the judge that the former prosecutor had been summoned to his home to talk to his landlord and tell him how the case had progressed.

The former prosecutor also intervened in other resounding cases: the badbadination of the conscript Omar Carrasco, whose case put an end to compulsory military service; and the cause of arms smuggling in Croatia and Ecuador.

He also participated in the investigation into the death of María Marta García Belsunce, when he told the prosecutor of the case at the time, Diego Molina Pico, that he "It was an accident. After that meeting, he was subsequently charged with interfering with the investigation and concealing the death of 2002.