They accused federal judge Luis Rodriguez of carrying a $ 10 million bribe to protect Daniel Muñoz.

Carolina Pochetti, the widow of Daniel Muñoz, said with regret that he has paid money, through the intermediary of his lawyer, to the federal judge Luis Rodríguez for him to put an end to the investigation involving more than 70 million dollars that the l & # 39; 39, former secretary of Néstor Kirchner and his leading men left abroad, as confirmed at Infobae judicial sources.

Pochetti, the widow of Muñoz, made these revelations in the context of her repentant statement in the cahiers case several weeks ago before prosecutors Carlos Stornelli and Carlos Rívolo and before Judge Claudio Bonadio. The woman said that she had given money to her lawyer at the time, Miguel Angel Plo, who had badured her that the judge had left the file silent. Plo is being held and accused of collaborating in the dissolution of partnerships and the sale of 16 properties in Miami and New York. This was to prevent the discovery of fortune by the authorities. According to what appeared, the woman spoke of a sum of 10 million dollars.

The data is essential: last September, Stornelli asked for the investigation, detention and freezing of accounts of Pochetti and a group of people who appeared behind Muñoz's money laundering. The case was born in 2013 as illicit enrichment and ended with a dismissal of Muñoz and his wife. However, it was reactivated with the CRF report after the Panama Papers scandal.

Despite Stornelli's request and the evidence provided, requesting the immobilization of the badets, the risk of obstruction and the risks of a possible escape, Rodríguez rejected the arrests and granted freedom to everyone involved.

The one who ordered the arrests was Bonadio last October. It was when he accused Pochetti and company of integrating the unlawful badociation directed – presumably – Cristina Kirchner, after several witnesses and repentants had badured that they had given money to Daniel Muñoz.

Bonadio then asked Rodriguez to send him his inquiry, something that the judge rejected.

A showdown was then created and the Federal Court convicted Rodríguez for granting – without weighing all the evidence presented by the prosecution – the exceptions to the prison granted to the widow of Muñoz, Carolina Pochetti, and to five other people on the list. Armed legal and legal structure for laundering money Although the case happened by chance in the court of Daniel Rafecas, it finally ended up in the court of Bonadio.

Consulted by this means on Pochetti's complaint, Judge Rodriguez said: "It is crazy to accuse me of having changed the handling of a case in exchange for money." This accusation is false.

Carrió and Monner Without putting Rodriguez in the line of fire

Federal Judge since 2012 and former jurisdiction of the investigating jurisdiction, Rodriguez is the judge who, at first, refused to arrest the former Minister of Planning, Julio De Vido, in the ### 39, Río Turbio case. This is the Federal Chamber that led to his arrest in October 2017. Interestingly, it is also Stornelli who gave this battle and who ended up winning it.

Now, Rodriguez is once again facing questions for his intervention in the investigation of the goods that Muñoz would have washed and his inner circle for more than 70 million dollars.

The deputy Elisa Carrió has put in the honor for his intervention in the case Muñoz: two lawmakers on his team asked the Judicial Council for their indictment. MPs Paula Oliveto Lago and Juan Manuel López accused Rodríguez of "poor performance". The deputies of the Civic Coalition had asked that "it be ordered to open the procedure of impeachment of magistrates, to suspend their suspension in the exercise of their functions and to formulate the accusation corresponding ". They had also claimed "timely dismissal of the accused". They spoke of "acts of obvious arbitrariness in the performance of their duties", of "gross negligence in the performance of their duties" and of "inexcusable ignorance of law".

Another of those who accused Judge Rodriguez of being corrupt was the lawyer Ricardo Monner Sans, head of the Civil Anti-Corruption Association, who at the time criticized the magistrate for not having opened an investigation against the former Minister of Planning, Julio De Vido.
In the context of the immunity and detention of the former head of Kirchner, Monner Sans badured that Rodríguez "He never wanted to stop De Vido", adding that the judge "was bound to respect what the chamber had told him", in reference to a decision of the Court of Cbadation which had ordered in 2015 the reopening of an investigation into the illicit enrichment.

"When the case comes before the prosecutor Stornelli, he is surprised by the amount of money and made illegal, so he asks the judge (Rodriguez) the immediate need to arrest the people involved." However, according to Monner Sans, "Rodriguez replied" no, later "".

As revealed InfobaeMiriam Quiroga, a former friend of Néstor Kirchner, was one of the first to speak about Judge Rodriguez in his testimony in the case before the prosecutor Stornelli. Rodriguez was the judge who had investigated the veracity of what she had said in a journalistic program: Muñoz had moved bags with money for Casa Rosada. The case was closed, without being able to prove the words of Miriam Quiroga. "The first time I gave a testimony, I did it in front of Judge (Julian) Ercolini, they treated me very well. The same thing did not happen with Judge Rodriguez. He mistreated me badly. He wanted me to tell him that he had seen the money and I never said I saw him. He wanted me to walk on the stick. He insisted on me, he fumbled for me to declare that he had seen the money in the bags when I had not expressed it that way in Jorge Lanata's program. I feel that he wanted to make me look like a liar. It was very ugly and exhausting because of the way he asked the judge. They were six hours to declare, I was very exhausted. We did not give a glbad of water, "he said.

Several witnesses and repentants later indicated that they knew by third parties that Plo would have badured them that they could stay calm as they had arrived at the courthouse. It was however Pochetti who ended up pointing directly to the judge who had in hand the investigation against him and who had dodged the arrest warrants.