The busy judicial agenda that will have Cristina on the bench

The courts, which have resumed their normal activities after the January legal fair, have a program loaded with causes with high political impact, which marks the beginning of the first oral and public trial against former President Cristina Fernández. in Comodoro Py.

The first oral trial against the former president and the current senator will seek to determine whether, as is suspected, public works have taken place under his government, in favor of the man of the day. arrested Lázaro Báez.

The trial will begin on February 26 at 12 noon and will also bring together the former Federal Planning Minister, Julio De Vido, the former Secretary of Public Works, José López, and the businessman Baez, all arrested for different reasons.

Trial hearings will be held on Mondays and Tuesdays throughout the year. More than 100 witnesses, including all former chiefs of staff who served during the decade that governed Kirchner, were cited for debate.

The Federal Oral Court 2 has also agreed to hear the testimony of public works businessmen, such as the prosecution staff now accused of the Cahiers case, Carlos Wagner and Angelo Calcaterra, proposed by the defense. of the former president.

The cause of the bribebooks, however, was not aware of the breaks during the summer fair: Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio accepted the new repentants, to put under the microscope the Environment of the late Daniel Muñoz, secretary of the former president, also missing. , Néstor Kirchner.

From Comodoro Py, Bonadio investigates an alleged illegal badociation, whose previous focus in the previous government, was to collect illicit funds from contractors badociated with public works.

Muñoz appears in the cause of the notebooks as the man who carried the purses with the alleged illegal collection at the Quinta de Olivos and in the construction of streets Juncal and Uruguay, where the former president has a department.

Judicial sources indicated that Bonadio should resolve in the coming days the situation of those who participated in Muñoz's maneuvers to hide illegal money from outside the country. Among them are his repentant widow, Carolina Pochetti, and the former official Kirchner official, Juan Manuel Campillo, both arrested.

For the new judicial year is also planned, in the Federal Courts of Retirement, a decision of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cbadation on the appeal of the release of former Vice President Amado Boudou, with electronic ankle in the case Ciccone.

On February 13, the Federal Chamber of Cbadation convened a hearing to decide whether to ratify or revoke the benefit of the electronic ankle release granted to the former vice president in the Ciccone case, for which he incurs a sentence of five years and ten months. jail.

On the other hand, Federal Judge Ariel Lijo will decide whether to order the evidence requested by a prosecutor, Ramiro González, as part of the investigation regarding alleged irregular contributions to the 2015 election campaign of Cambiemos.

In any case, before the start of the trial of Cristina Fernández, there will be judicial definitions, including Hotesur, in which the Senator will appear with her children Máximo and Florencia Kirchner; Judge Julian Ercolini will soon send the case to a draw.

With regard to the 2019 oral proceedings, the Federal Oral Court 3 has to rule on the requests for evidence and set a start date for the debate which will place the detained businessmen, Cristóbal López and Fabián De Sousa, on the bench. accused, for the multi-million dollar fraud of the company "Petroleum Fuels".

Another court, the Federal 8, must also provide the evidence requested by all parties and set the date of the trial to the former president and other defendants when signing the memorandum of understanding between the Argentina and Iran for the attack of AMIA.

With regard to the cause of the bribery books, Chamber One of the Federal Chamber of Cbadation will begin to consider appeals against the first round of the defendants, including Cristina Fernández, as alleged perpetrator of an illicit badociation and of corruption for pre-trial detention. although he remains free to have privileges as a national senator.

As for Bonadio, he should also order a new set of customizable returns for businessmen, mostly from the interior of the country.