Notebooks: seek to add two more prosecutors to strengthen the trial

Prosecutors in the case of bribery notebooks are preparing a project to incorporate at least two other prosecutors in the investigation, informed judicial sources to PERFIL. The intention of Carlos Stornelli, who works on the file with the collaboration of his partner Carlos Rívolo, is to add at least two trial attorneys who begin to prepare the biggest case of corruption in recent years and guarantee sound judgment. They are also evaluating the possibility of adding a new prosecutor of education.

The decision is made while the prosecutor Stornelli is the target of a criminal investigation in the Federal Court of Dolores, in charge of Alejo Ramos Padilla. Stornelli is due to be investigated on Wednesday and is accused of complicity in an illegal spying ring. Marcelo D'Alessio as well as former members of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), who would devote themselves to extortion and armed judicial affairs. If this happens against him, the case could force Stornelli to withdraw from the investigation. The prosecutor has shown no intention of doing so so far.

The cause of the notebooks, investigated by Judge Claudio Bonadio, reaches a key point. The last 101 investigations will be completed in the next few days. In the coming weeks, the magistrate would already be able to rule on further prosecutions against businessmen and former officials of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Prosecutors still have at least one outstanding investigation track: the alleged complicity of banks and financial entities in the payment system of corruption for public works under the Kirchner administration. The repentant financier Ernesto Clarens He said he received bribes from companies in pesos, and then bought dollars to give them Daniel Muñoz, former secretary of Kirchner, and José López, Former secretary of public works. Prosecutors want to know who helped them in the financial system to carry out this maneuver.

Ramos Padilla has again quoted Stornelli for an interrogation next Wednesday

In order to broaden the team of prosecutors, Stornelli must coordinate the allocation of resources with the Attorney General of the nation, led by Eduardo Casal. Attorneys of first instance are those who bring cases to oral courts. Its function will be to prepare the evidence, which involves more than a hundred defendants, to strengthen prosecutors' accusations in an oral and public debate.

The names of prosecutors will be chosen by Stornelli, confirmed judicial sources.

However, this does not mean that they will be responsible for leading the debate, because the trial attorney must be appointed to the lottery and not the finger. But for Stornelli and Rívolo, this team will allow them to support the future budget that must defend the case before the oral courts.

Some of the last major cases tried by the Courts of Comodoro Py have resulted in a scandal. The cause of the AMIA attack was canceled. Bribes in the Senate resulted in acquittals. The conviction of former President Carlos Menem for arms trafficking to Croatia and Ecuador has finally been reduced "Do not meet reasonable deadlines." With controversial antecedents, the delicate situation of Stornelli himself is added. The prosecutor has already opened a disciplinary record to determine whether Stornelli should be punished for his alleged links with Alessio and for illegal spying. The prosecutor made a series of spontaneous resignations before his superiors gave him his version of the facts. The prosecutor could be sanctioned or even removed from the case.