The Judicial Council’s Prosecution Commission unanimously agreed this Wednesday to allow the judicial fair in January to process complaints against judges Alejandro Maraniello –against whom eleven cases are pending, including allegations of sexual abuse – and Gastón Salmain, federal judge in Rosario, who is criminally accused of issuing court rulings in exchange for bribes.
In the trial of the federal judge of San Isidro Sandra Arroyo Salgado, pointed out the handling of the case in which a political activist was arrested for insulting the then MP José Luis Espertand kept her (and also her mother) in prison for days, the commission decided to include journalistic notes from the period when the file was under summary secrecy and voted to call witness statements Paula LitvachkyExecutive Director of the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) and Ariel Cejas Meliare, Assistant Corrections Attorney.
What do the eleven complaints in a row say against the judge who banned the publication of Karina Milei’s audio recordings?
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All city councilors present voted to approve the court mass: Luis Juez, Alberto Maques, Cesar Grau and deputies Álvaro González, Vanesa Siley and Rodolfo Tailhade (who participated via Zoom for health reasons). Although they are not part of the commission, the scientist has also joined Maria Fernanda Vazquez and the judge Diego Barroetaveña.
The Prosecution Commission also decided to summon the judge of the Federal Court of La Pampa in accordance with Article 20 of the Regulation, which amounts to an investigation in a criminal case. Pablo Diaz Lacava, who is already being prosecuted for minor and serious injuries as well as simple and coercive threats against two male and four female judicial employees in connection with violence at work and gender-based violence.
At the beginning of the commission meeting, shortly after 11 a.m., the federal judge of Mar del Plata presented his defense. Alfredo Lopez, denounced for spreading anti-Semitic and xenophobic statements on his social networks. “If I haven’t received any accusations of this kind in 40 years, then what happened? Did I then become an anti-Semite or was a genocide in Gaza by the State of Israel uncovered?” said the judge.
“I should have avoided these answers by exercising the virtue of prudence, but I would like to add that judges, as citizens, are also men,” he claimed, questioning MP Sabrina Ajmechet (former PRO, current LLA), who denounced him because – as he said – the lawmaker had previously mocked “the Holy Virgin”. López asserted through his social networks his right to defend the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands.
This Wednesday’s meeting, the last of the year of the prosecution commission, also marked the farewell of Luis Juez as president of the room. “It has been a hard and busy year,” said the senator from Córdoba, who will be replaced by lawyer and advisor Alberto Maques from January. Upon dismissing the judge and after the vote that allowed the judicial mass for the month of January, Maques joked: “I will take the Pelopincho to the building at 700 Libertad Street, where the Judicial Council is located.”
The judge announced thisThis Thursday the verdict will be announced in the impeachment trial against Federal Judge Martín Poderti, member of the Federal Criminal Court of Mar del Plata. is charged with poor performance in the execution of his duties based on the alleged theft of 144 gold coins that were in his custody.
The proceedings against Maraniello and Salmain
Maraniello is a federal civil and commercial judge. On September 1st he ruled in favor of Secretary General of the Presidium, Karina Milei, by refusing to broadcast audio recordings whose voice is fundamentally linked to the case of alleged bribes in the purchase of medicines by the National Disability Agency (ANDIS), to which the ousted Diego Spagnuolo referred.
By that time, he had already filed sexual harassment and labor abuse claims against him with the Judicial Council, and after the verdict – which FOPEA considered an attempt at pre-censorship – he was accused of misconduct and poor performance in the exercise of his duties.
In the case of Salmain, A group of prosecutors from Rosario are investigating the judge in a case of illicit association, dereliction of duty, bribery, corruption and concealment. At the same time, the judge is being investigated by the Judicial Council because of allegations I lied on your resume without revealing that he had been dismissed from the judiciary as an employee, and in 2023, when he was already serving as a judge, he was criminally accused of adopting a precautionary measure against bribery, a remorseful confessed to trying to intervene in the process of confiscating his cell phone before the security forces, and unlawfully editing pension files.
Also in the case against the judge of the Federal Court of La Pampa, Pablo Díaz Lacava, the Mass was allowed to hear new witnesses and provide documentary evidence.
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