Death of ex-prosecutor Juan Martín Romero Victorica

The former Attorney General of the Criminal Cbadation Juan Martin Romero Victorica, accused at the time of the alleged aid of a military dictatorship, has died, as confirmed his nephew , the famous lawyer Manuel Romero Victorica.

"He was a tried and honorable judicial magistrate who courageously fulfilled his role in difficult times in the country and who, despite the attacks on his life, never stopped searching for the truth," he said. the nephew. Twitter account.

Accused

In September 2011, the Attorney General of the Nation of the time, Esteban Righi, had accepted the resignation of Juan Martín Romero Victorica, accused of alleged help to a soldier of the dictatorship, a repressor accused of being suitable a missing girl, according to the published agencies DyN and Telam.

By that time, Romero Victorica had succeeded in putting an end to a possible indictment and enjoying the benefits of retirement as a senior official of the judiciary.

The grievor had already resigned in May 2011. He had been active at the Department of Justice for 50 years and had been able to retire for six years.

Romero Victorica was carrying an alleged criminal case of help to justice in front of a soldier and a friend accused of stealing a girl from disappeared under the dictatorship.

The cbadation prosecutor had been denounced by the daughter of the missing Victoria Montenegro, who, in the Federal Court of Justice, 6 had stated that the official had telephoned his home to talk to his Prosecutor, the late Colonel Herman Telzlaf, in order to To inform of the evolution of the case. in which he was accused of illegal appropriation.

Montenegro has regained its identity and learned that she was the biological daughter of Hilda Ramona Torres and Roque Orlando Montenegro, two activists of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), who died in 1977, and reported that Telzlaf had confessed that she had killed her parents and who showed him the weapon with which he committed the crimes.

Romero Victorica intervened, under the Alfonsín government, in the extradition of the head of Montonero, Mario Firmenich, and then pardoned.

He then sought to bring to justice the Montonero guerrillas who had been kidnapped in September 1974 under the Peronist government, the brothers Juan and Jorge Born, and especially to get back some of the $ 60 million paid by Bunge. and born in Montoneros organization as a rescue.