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Former Foreign Minister Hector Timerman will be the first to testify in the case where, along with Cristina Kirchner and other former public servants, they were prosecuted for concealing the AMIA attack by signing the pact of understanding with Iran. 19659002] The measure, despite the fact that the oral and public trial has not yet begun, was taken by the Federal Court 8 (TOF 8) which will justify this proceeding and was in response to a request from the defense – by Alejandro Rúa and Graciana Peñafort -, in front of the delicate state of health of Timerman
Hector Timerman will be pronounced this Friday from 9:30 by videoconference. He will do it from his private home. In January of this year, the former Chancellor obtained his release after asking to travel to the United States for treatment at his complex health center. It is Judge Claudio Bonadio who had entrusted him with home care when he tried all the defendants in this case.
Defense lawyers Alejandro Rúa and Graciana Peñafort asked the TOF 8 composed of judges José Michilini, Gabriela López Iñiguez and Jorge Tasara, that Timerman could declare in advance. In a brief resolution, the magistrates made the request.
"The important thing is that the court listens to Timerman and that he can give explanations of the Personally, in front of the judges and the prosecutor. He will answer all the questions that they will ask him, understanding that the trial is judged or not, he will discuss what he has done and from what he did not do " told Rúa's lawyer in Clarín.
According to judicial sources, this trial could only begin next year when Cristina Kirchner faces other similar cases in other cases (Public Works, Hotesur, Los Sauces, Dólar Futuro). The ex-president asked to be judged "orally" in this case and argued that in the next step he will demonstrate "the arbitrariness of his charge" which will be "exposed to the whole society ".
The oral and public trial will be under the charges confirmed by the House II of the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires, namely "impedes a functional act, abuse of power and aggravated concealment ".
This is Judge Claudio Bonadio who closed the investigation and addressed an oral and public hearing to Cristina Kirchner, Hector Timerman, Carlos Zannini, Oscar Parrilli, Luis D & Elia, Fernando Esteche, Jorge Khalil, Angelina Abona and Martín Mena. Cuervo "Larroque, Alan Bogado and Eduardo Zuaín.
The case began after the complaint filed in January 2015 by the prosecutor Alberto Nisman against the former president the former Foreign Minister Timerman and other former K officials and activists for the concealment of the terrorist attack at the Jewish siege, promoting the drafting and adoption of the Covenant with Iran. days later, he appeared lifeless in the bathroom of his apartment in Puerto Madero.
During the investigation, justice determined that there was a "criminal plan orchestrated and implemented "to" confer impunity on Iranian citizens "accused of the attack against the AMIA headquarters.
Both the judge and the prosecutor Taiano agreed that the accused "participated in a criminal maneuver that would ensure impunity for citizens s of Iranian nationality who were accused of being responsible for the AMIA attack, to the detriment of the interests of those affected and clarification of the attack, whose purpose was, inter alia, to normalize relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. "
For Bonadio there was a" change during the government of Cristina Kirchner "where they began " to begin a series of secret and official negotiations that kept officials of the national executive power, with representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran who culminated the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding. "
Thus, according to justice," the criminal action denounced "was" orchestrated and implemented "by the former president, at the head of all responsibilities, to" give orders " and reached its main leaders at that time: Zannini, Parrilli, former Treasurer Abbona, Timerman, Juan Mena, Andres "Cuervo" Larroque, Zuain among others.
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