From time to time, Cristina Kirchner chooses a judge to aim all her cannons and make her the focus of criticism and writings that seek to disqualify her. In the past those targets were the deceased Claudio Bonadio, the chambermaids Leopoldo Bruglia and Pablo Bertuzzi and in recent times the judges of the Court that judges her for the Cause Road: Rodrigo Giménez Uriburu, Jorge Gorini and Andrés Basso. To all, for different reasons, he had them between his eyebrows. Now it was the turn of María Eugenia Capuchetti, the head of Federal Court No. 5, who is in charge of investigating the assassination attempt against the vice president.
On November 14, Cristina Kirchner challenged the judge in harsh terms because, according to his writing, the cause is paralyzed.
Ascent. María Eugenia Capuchetti was elected federal judge in 2019, after competing for the court that had belonged to Norberto Oyarbide until 2016, when he resigned.
In those years of macrismo, the selection of federal judges was in charge of a “judicial table” in which the presidential adviser José Torello, the representative of the Executive in the Judicial Council Juan Bautista Mahiques, the Secretary of Legal and Technical Pablo Clusellas, the Minister of Justice Germán Garavano and, although it seems unusual, the then president of Boca Juniors, Daniel Angelici, perhaps the most influential in Justice of all that table.
Capuchetti has a long-standing friendship with Cristian Ritondo. He met him in 1998, when the current PRO deputy was Undersecretary of Security during the Carlos Menem government. At that time, Ritondo had established a good relationship with Carlos Alberto Capuchetti, the judge’s father, who at that time was commissioner of the Federal Police. Capuchetti was 26 years old and already works in the federal Justice.
In 2019, he was on the shortlist to occupy Federal Court No. 5. His competitors were Juan Tomás Rodríguez Ponte and Agustina Rodríguez, but their bad luck played in their favor Capuchetti. Rodriguez Ponte He was in charge of the listening office and had been secretary of Ariel Lijo’s court, with which his godfather was the judge himself. Agustina Rodríguez was a magistrate linked to Legitimate Justice. In other words, when the documents arrived at the office of Macri, Capuchetti It was the one that had the best chance, because in those years Lijo’s relationship with the Government was at its worst, and Agustina Rodríguez, because of her K membership, had no chance that the then president would propose her.
Capuchetti had worked in the Institutional Relations area of the Buenos Aires City Attorney during the administrations of Germán Garavano and Martín Ocampo. She was already an acquaintance of the judicial universe of the PRO.
In the recusal letter, Cristina Kirchner accused her of having “improper relations with the macrist AFI”, but he never clarified what he meant. The closest link to Capuchetti with the AFI He was not born with macrismo. Her sister, María Cecilia, entered the Counterintelligence area in 2000, managed by Antonio “Jaime” Stiuso, who had a good relationship with Capuchetti Sr. The judge’s sister was discharged in June 2020 by the current head of Counterintelligence, camper Esteban Carella, who won the fight against Cristina Caamaño and stayed in the agency, while she had to leave.
Capuchetti has in her favor that she is a judge of the system. She has a career in Comodoro Py and ties to politics, so getting her out of the way will be difficult for Cristina. In 2020, one of her first resonant resolutions was to file CFK’s enrichment case, which still had some remaining files in the old Oyarbide court.
On the day of his interview in Congress, Cordovan senator Enrique Martinez he made a comment about Capuchetti’s landing at Comodoro Py, believing that the microphone was turned off. “She’s absolutely naked,” he said. Although she did not have faith in him, she went a long way.
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