Prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola They are analyzing, including a new order, the assets to be seized in the road case in the department where he is located Christina Kirchner He is serving a six-year prison sentence at San Jose 1111 Constitution.
The final decision is issued by the Federal Oral Court 2 – composed of judges Jorge Gorini, Rodrigo Jimenez Uriburu and Andres Basso– Who last Tuesday ordered the confiscation of 80 properties Lazaro Baez and their companies; Land in Santa Cruz de la former President with an area of just over 6,000 square meters and twenty properties that were transferred at that time to Maximo and Florencia Kirchner.
Now, in the second batch of assets to be confiscated, prosecutors Luciani and Mola are analyzing other properties, among them the former Constitución apartment, with an area of about 232 square metres, which was purchased in 2010 for just over $300,000. He added: “The matter is under study.” Nation Source of reason.
The property is registered in the name Hotsura company now owned by Máximo and Florencia Kirchner and whose assets were seized in a parallel money laundering case, where the defendants are Cristina Kirchner herself and her deputy.
The defense disputes the progress made on these assets and those of Máximo and Florencia, which were transferred to their mother in 2016. The lawyers pointed out that the prosecution had not proven a causal connection between each of the identified assets and the crime.
Christina Kirchner called for canceling the implementation of the confiscation ruling, in addition to criticizing the method of implementing the confiscation calculation process. It indicated that it is illegal to implement assets that were acquired before 2009, the year in which it signed a decree linking them to the maneuver.
Their children, Maximo and Florencia, indicated that they could not be affected by this procedure, as they had nothing to do with the operation.
The judges stressed that in implementing the confiscation, “scientific tracing” is not followed, but rather it is sufficient to prove temporal coincidence and economic plausibility. They said the measure, which seeks to ensure that the crime does not come to fruition, reaches both the direct producer and “profits derived from transferred, substituted or mixed assets”, as well as to unconvicted persons, such as the children of the former president or Néstor Kirchner himself.
“Although it is true that there was no conviction regarding that Nestor Kirchner -Who died even before the start of this case-, this does not mean that the historical reconstruction of events found him in the framework of the maneuver, as he was carrying out multiple actions with Lázaro Páez. The decision adds: “And the assets inherited by his children – he adds – were known to form part of the common block of assets of the marital partnership he formed with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.”
The first assets that the court ordered confiscated were those registered in the name of the convict.
Following Federal Oral Court Decision No. 2, the confiscated assets fall within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, which must now inventory, evaluate and decide whether to give them for public use or sell them at public auction.
The judges ordered the confiscation of 50 properties owned by Lazaro Baez; 49 properties in Santa Cruz and one in Chubut. Most of them are parcels of land, farms or estates located in Río Gallegos, El Calafate, Río Torbio and 28 de November (Santa Cruz) – the remaining properties are located in Alto Río Singir in Chubut. Acquired between 2004 and 2011.
Of these properties, 34 properties are in the hands of the country’s Supreme Court and have already been confiscated in the Money Road case.
The judges in the road case also ordered the confiscation of Cristina Kirchner’s 6,000 square meter property, which she acquired in 2007 and is located in El Calafate, Santa Cruz. In addition, the court ordered the confiscation of 19 properties transferred to Maximo Kirchner and Florencia Kirchner.
According to the ruling, although they were not found guilty, “they received it free of charge and must be considered the product or benefit of the crime.”
There are 19 properties: 12 of them are located in Río Gallegos and the remaining seven are in the Lago Argentino section of El Calafate. Among these assets is the land on which the Los Sauces Hotel was built.
The court announced that if, after evaluation, these assets are not sufficient to cover the total amount of confiscation, they will be added to the assets of the others convicted in the case: Nelson Guillermo Berriotti, José Francisco Lopez, Mauricio Collareda, Raul Gilberto Pavese, and Raul Osvaldo Daruish.