They dispute the prosecutor who wants to bring the case to Ramos Padilla for his links with Cambiemos

This Monday, in the context of the trial of Alessiogate, the lawyer and prosecutor Maximiliano Rusconi requested the challenge of subrogated prosecutor before the Federal Chamber of Mar del Plata, Juan Manuel Pettigiani, the same who suggested that they take the case of illegal espionage to federal judge Alejo Ramos Padilla and send it to the courts of Comodoro Py. What is he accused of? Be linked to the party in power and therefore be partial.

Represented by lawyer Gabriel Palmeiro, Rusconi said that there are "links, facts and situations" that "demonstrate the possible relationship between this Prosecutor and certain interests, stranger in the pursuit of truth and the development of the present inquiry ".

More specifically, the prosecutor is accused of "Total loss of objectivity" through its relations with "certain political sectors, in particular, the Party of the Faith, and its intervention for example, in the electoral dispute of the year 2015 within the internal litigation configured with the political party PRO ".

The complaint states, in the letter filed today – and in which also criticizes the opinion of the prosecutor on the incompetence of Ramos Padilla – that "there are" public statements, photographs, they locate Mr. Fiscal directly related to the areas of electoral politics badociated with the current national executive power, led by the Frente Cambiemos. "

The referent of the party Fe was until his death the head of the union Gerónimo "Momo" Venegas. In fact, there is an image published on May 29, 2015 in which you can see a smiling Pettigiani posing with one who was at the head of UATRE. In the chronicle of this meeting, the portal Mar del Plata what is digital He said that "Gerónimo" Momo "Venegas, candidate for the presidency of the FE party, was in Mar del Plata and expressed his support for the candidacy of Emiliano Giri as part of the agreement between the PRO and the UCR. During his visit to the city, Venegas was accompanied by the president of the FE party in Mar del Plata and the president of the Fishermen's Employers' Society, Luis Ignoto, as well as the prosecutor Juan Manuel Pettigiani, another leader of the party. "He is presented as a person" with experience in security ".

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These links are worrisome because, in the ongoing investigation in Dolores, investigations are being conducted on government officials and leaders. Rusconi quotes, for example, the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich; the head of the federal intelligence agency, Gustavo Arribas; and the federal prosecutor Carlos Stornelli, former director of Boca.

In the letter that was presented today to the House of Mar del Plata, he is also questioned about the fact that the prosecutor has never contacted the complaint nor consulted the parties' views on the the question of competition, a central point for the future of the cause. And that Pettigiani, as he seems to indicate a photo that circulated in the media, was with the lawyer Roberto Ribas, defender in this case the Stornelli fiscal rebel. "The materialization of the conversations of the lawyer intervening with the defense of the only rebel defendant in this case, which holds in particular a considerable power at the judicial level and maintains direct and proven links with senior executives of the executive power", adds to elements cited by Rusconi to move the subrogated prosecutor. In fact, he points out that Pettigiani and Stornelli "share a common pattern and a specific pretext for ruling on the incompetence of Dr. Ramos Padilla at the head of this investigation".

Thus, the lawyer and the complainant questioned Pettigiani's "disinterest" and his political relations to explain the "mistrust of this party as to its purpose and its action directed towards the search for the truth".

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In another section of the presentation, reference is made to the way Pettigiani was appointed, replacing the "natural" prosecutor, Daniel Adler. "We do not know, in the first place, the mechanisms by which he was appointed," Rusconi said, before criticizing the acting Attorney General. Eduardo Casal, which usually manifests itself in accordance with the interests of the executive power (and is the "common boss" of Pettigiani and Stornelli). It is precisely the head of the Attorney General's office who defines these movements. "We know that recently, the Attorney General of the nation has put in place arbitrary designation mechanisms, devoid of any transparency ", the lawyer and the plaintiff broke on to Casal.

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Since arriving at the post in replacement of Adler, the plaintiffs saw Pettigiani as a threat to the future of the case. This fear materialized when it arose in the litigation concerning the competence of the case and recommended that the case be forwarded to the Retiro Courts.

So things, If the challenge is not accepted -which was raised in the same federal chamber- the application will be extended to higher authorities such as the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cbadation"There is a sufficient federal issue that justifies the very intervention of the Supreme Court of Justice of the nation".