From her office in Congress, the vice president received the verdict of the Federal Oral Court 2. Through a Zoom window, Judge Jorge Gorini read the judgment of the Road Cause, on Tuesday 6 at 5:30 p.m.: “The Court resolves to sentence Cristina Elisabeth Fernandez de Kirchner to the penalty of 6 years in prison and lifelong special disqualification from holding public office”, indicated the magistrate before pointing out that he will also have to face, together with the other convicts, the costs of the process. That is, he must pay for the expenses incurred in the trial.
Also, the Federal Oral Court 2 ordered the confiscation of the effects of the crime “consisting of the updated sum of $84,835,227,378.04,” as specified.
Together with the vice, Lázaro Báez had the highest sentence of the Cause Road. Also 6 years for the businessman, which is added to the sentences he is already serving. Both were acquitted of the crime of illicit association, for which the prosecutor Diego Luciani had accused them.
The former Secretary of Public Works was also sentenced Jose Lopez (6 years), the former director of Roads Nelson Periotti (6 years) and the former mayor of Río Gallegos Juan Carlos Villafañe (5 years), among others. Julio De Vido and Claudio Fatala fThey were acquitted without costs and Carlos Santiago Kirchner it was dismissed.
Just 27 minutes were enough to end the Cause Road that he had hearings for more than three years and that could continue in a few months, when the magistrates announce the recitals of their sentence and the convicted are in a position to appeal before the Chamber of Cassation. “Gentlemen, this trial is over”, concluded Gorini.
Although the decision to mobilize was not unanimous, thousands of people lived from the street, in Commodore Py, the TOF 2 decision. In fact, given the possibility of some act of violence being generated, the Extraction group of the Federal Police had been present in the courts in order to guard the three judges and the prosecutors.
by RN
