The judge Maria Eugenia Capuchettiwho is carrying out the cause of the assassination attempt against Cristina Kirchnerremained at the center of the controversy after the vice president requested his recusal, alleging that he did not investigate the political ties of his attacker or the indications that would point to involving the deputy for the PRO Gerard Milman
Chaputetti He has a long history in the field of law. She received her law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of the Argentine Social Museumin 1996, after having entered three years earlier in the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 8 as an administrative assistant.
After having been the legal secretary of the federal judge and current minister of the Supreme Court of Justice, Sergio Torres, Capuchetti stood in front of the Directorate of the Liaison Office with Official Bodies of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous City of Buenos Airesat the same time in which the prosecutor was the former legislator of the PRO Martin Ocampo.
In November 2018, he applied for a contest to fill the vacancy left by the judge Norberto Oyarbide. The statement of it was sent to the Senate by the then president Mauricio Macri. In April 2019 the specifications were approved: let’s change Y Federal Peronism they supported Capucetti’s statement, but Kirchnerism voted against it. A month later, Capuchetti became a federal judge, being in charge of the National Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 5. She is the second woman in charge of one of the 12 courts of first instance in Comodoro Py, being the first Maria Romilda Servini de Cubria.
In addition to the assassination attempt, Capuchetti is in charge of the complaint that the former national deputy for Popular Unity, Claudia Lozanoraised against the Cambiemos government for the IMF loan.
He is also in charge of the cause for the “VIP vaccination”the discretionary distribution of vaccines against the coronavirus that occurred during the pandemic that led to the resignation of the then Minister of Health Gines Gonzalez Garcia.
In addition, Capuchetti signed the dismissal of the businessmen Fabian DeSousa Y Christopher Lopez in the case for the alleged illegal sale of the Indalo group.
Through his Twitter account, Cristina Kirchner announced the request for the judge’s recusal. “I want to share with you the following video. As a result of the events that you are going to see and hear, I have instructed my lawyers to recuse Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti, ”the vice president tweeted, accompanying the announcement with a video detailing her arguments.
I want to share with you the following video. As a result of the events that you are going to see and hear, I have instructed my lawyers to recuse Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti. pic.twitter.com/LiLka92Mm3
– Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) November 10, 2022
According to the video, a witness would have told Capuchetti that Gerardo Milman already knew about the assassination attempt two days before it happened. “When they kill her, I’m on my way to the coast,” Milman would have said in a dialogue with his two advisers at the Casablanca bar, near Congress. Or at least that’s what the witness claims to have heard.
The next day the legislator traveled to the Atlantic Coast. Two days later, the attempted assassination of Cristina Kirchner took place.
Despite this and other relevant data that would support Milman’s alleged involvement in the events, Capuchetti has not yet cited Milan. According to the video that Cristina Kirchner shared, Capuchetti would be “boycotting” the investigation.
