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The Argentine Prosecutor’s Office requests the perpetual disqualification of Cristina Fernandez

The Argentine Prosecutor’s Office has requested the perpetual disqualification of the vice president, Cristina Fernandez, from holding public office, since it considers her responsible for an alleged illegal network to defraud the State through the concession of public works in Santa Cruz.

The Public Ministry estimates at 5,231 million pesos (more than 39 million euros) the amount defrauded by a network that also splashes the late husband of the vice president, Nestor Kirchner, and former officials such as former minister Julio de Vido.

Prosecutor Diego Luciani has announced that, with the exception of the businessman Lazaro Baez, “the impossibility of holding public office will be requested” of all the defendants, including Fernandez, who has always argued that the multiple court cases opened against her are part of a political persecution.

“Her condition as president of the nation at the time of the events means that she has defrauded the State and its voters,” said the prosecutor. “She interposed her personal interest over the public interest,” Luciani said, she lamented, according to the newspaper ‘La Nacion’.

The vice president is not present in this part of the process, since she has been exempted due to her current position, but from Twitter she has announced by surprise that she has requested to testify again this Wednesday, given that the prosecutors “assembled issues in her accusation that never had been raised.”

It is expected that the final arguments of the defenses will start on September 5 and that the sentence will be known already in December. However, a hypothetical conviction would foreseeably give rise to a chain of resources and the sentence could not be final for several years, which would suspend both the disqualification and a possible entry into prison.

Source: Europa Press

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