In June 2001, the former president Carlos Saúl Menem He was arrested by federal judge Jorge Urso. The magistrate had called him to an investigative statement for the illegal shipments of Army weapons to Croatia and Ecuador and the former president refused to answer questions. He was imprisoned for more than five months.
Menem got into a helicopter and He went to the fifth of Armando Gostanián, friend and former president of the Casa de la Moneda, in Don Torcuatowhere that imprisonment would spend. “Bananero Pulite Mani,” he titled News two days after the fact. “Prison in the fifth of a friend with brand new wife included. Menemist judge who overacts to save. And completed: “Justice that does not seriously investigate the enrichment. It could be free in 30 days.”
Finally there were not 30, but not many more. In less than 180, the former president was free. In the special edition of Mani Pulite Bananero, News denounced The extreme politicization of the courts of Comodoro Py 2002. Something that spoke a lot of the following decades.
A couple of months later, in the midst of his arrest, This magazine would publish the “private menem” cover, life in the VIP prison, The Tour of the $ 100 thousand of Bolocco and the act of peace with Zulemita. “In that edition, the former president said:” There is no national unit with me, “the former president warned.
Menem received leaders in the fifth. He gave each one 15 minutes to be issued. Anyway, he was weakened in the Peronism. “As soon as I leave, because I am going to leave, I will do one and a thousand acts, throughout the country, talking to my people. And do not get excited: I will continue to do politics, what I always did, what I know how to do,” he told their interlocutors.
Menem, as Cristina Kirchner, were the only two presidents in Argentine history detained in the midst of judicial processes carried out in democracy.
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