Investigation of Judge Luis Rodríguez, accused of receiving a million-dollar bribe, advances to the Judicial Council

The Judicial Council of the nation approved today open next week the affidavit of badets of federal judge Luis Rodríguez and he asked the magistrate Claudio Bonadio the statements of all the defendants in the case of the corruption notebooks which appoints the magistrate

The measures were unanimously ordered by the Discipline and Prosecution Committee of the Council, the body responsible for investigating the performance of national and federal judges, at the request of the Diego Molea, the counselor who represents the universities and who is in charge of investigations against Rodríguez.

Rodriguez is the owner of Federal Court 9 and is under investigation for his actions in the case against Daniel Muñoz, the deceased private secretary of the former president Néstor Kirchner, his wife Carolina Pochetti and other defendants to be their pioneers in the purchase of properties in the United States for $ 70 million. The judge was removed from the case by the Federal Chamber and Pochetti declared as repentant in the case of notebooks that her husband had told her before his death that, through the intermediary of the lawyer Miguel Angel Plo, had paid Rodriguez $ 10 million for the record to Not advance, which finally happened.

The Council has already asked Judge Bonadio – in charge of the notebooks case – of Pochetti's statement and he has now come forward with other testimonies. He demanded the statement of all the people who in the case called Rodríguez and he has already left the demand, so that the same thing happens with those who mention it in the future.

Last week, Víctor Manzanares, former accountant of marriage Kirchner and also repentant in the case, said that Muñoz had told him that he had paid Rodriguez eight million dollars.

There is another testimony, at least that is known. Elizabeth Municoy, accused of being the figurehead of Muñoz-Pochetti and also repentant, said that she had learned through the intermediary of the woman that Plo – who is in prison – had paid Judge Rodríguez .

The Board also decided to open Rodriguez's affidavit. It will be next Wednesday at 10 o'clock. The judge has already been summoned after the Commission meeting if he wishes, or his lawyer, Oscar Vignale. The Board will review the dedicated schedules of the return to cross-reference these data with other test measures. "We will check your expenses and your standard of living with your statement", explained the body.

Vignale already advanced to the body that the magistrate will make a presentation on the denunciation. This is to respond to the notification that the council has made on the beginning of the case.

Councilor Molea raised a question during the meeting to speed up the test measurements. He stated that the Discipline and Prosecution Committee met once a week and that this was the only area in which the measures were approved, but that in some cases it was necessary to have a hearing. act quickly. This is why he mentioned the need to reform the regulation. The Peronist Senator Miguel Ángel Pichetto, President of the Commission, shares the request.

The Council had already published the first test tests two weeks ago. He requested Pochetti's statement to Rodriguez's Central Bank of Accounts and its movements, credit cards and orders from various registers, among others.

Who has already answered was the National Directorate of Migration during the trips of Rodriguez and his wife. The answer was that the couple made one to three trips abroad per year since 2014, including the United States, Spain, Peru, Italy and France. "It's not extraordinary, there's nothing fishy about it," They noted to the Council that they were waiting for the rest of the test measures.

Today, other complaints have been lodged with the Council against Rodríguez and it has been resolved that they be drawn by lot. One went to see Councilor Graciela Camaño, the other Judge Alberto Lugones and the third Juan Pablo Más Vélez.