The Forensic Medical Corps will examine the former Minister of Federal Planning this Wednesday Julio De Vido to determine your health status and thus The former official’s request to leave Ezeiza Federal Prison and serve house arrest is now being resolved. his sentence of four years in prison for the Once railway tragedy.
Judicial sources informed Clarion that De Vido has a shift at the Forensic Medical Corps on Wednesday at 8 a.m. The former official gives reasons for the house arrest. He said he suffers from high blood pressure and asthma and is insulin dependent, requiring daily medication, a condition he said was made worse in a prison unit.
Also his age. He will be 76 years old on December 26th And the law allows you to apply for house arrest at age 70, but this is not an automatic requirement.
The Forensic Medical Corps report is the first step. With this, the Federal Court 4 of Comodoro Py will ask the prosecutor of the case: Juan Garcia Elorrioand the families of the victims of the Once tragedy, who are represented by the lawyer Leonardo Menghiniwho voice their opinion on whether De Vido should be grounded.
In addition, doctors at Ezeiza Prison can advise whether the former officer’s health problems can be treated in the unit. This will enable the judges to make a decision.
The former officer suggested serving house arrest at his home in the gated Puerto Panal neighborhood.in the city of Zárate in Buenos Aires. A socio-ecological study will be conducted on the site to determine whether it meets the requirements of house arrest. This includes having access to technology that allows the use of an electronic ankle bracelet that monitors the defendant’s movements.
He was already imprisoned there in 2019. De Vido was detained until December 2019 for the first time since October 2017 – when his privileges as a national MP were revoked at the Marcos Paz Federal Penitentiary. He was subsequently placed on house arrest and released from prison in March 2020.
At that time, the former official was in preventive detention in various cases. Now he is serving a harsh four-year prison sentence that was upheld by the nation’s Supreme Court last month.
The Supreme Court rejected a number of proposals regarding the level of punishment and left the verdict final. The Federal Oral Court 4 ordered De Vido to appear in Comodoro Py two days later to be arrested there. He did so and has been imprisoned in Ezeiza Prison ever since.
Following the Supreme Court ruling, De Vido’s defense filed a motion to vacate or reinstate the verdict. That proposal was rejected by the Supreme Court last week.
The railway tragedy occurred on February 12, 2012, when a Sarmiento Line train crashed at Once station, killing 51 people. In this case there was one first attempt in which the train driver was convicted in December 2015 Marcos Cordobaformer transport minister Ricardo Jaime and Juan Pablo Schiavi and the owner of Trenes de Buenos Aires (TBA), Claudio Ciriglianoand former directors of the company.
Like De Vido, Jaime is imprisoned in Ezeiza Prison, serving his sentence.
The former minister was brought to trial in one second try which ended in 2018. Federal Court 4 sentenced him to a prison sentence of five years and eight months fraudulent administration in the management of public funds that TBA has not applied to the service. The former officer was acquitted of the crime of negligent destruction for the deaths caused by the crash.
The Supreme Court confirmed De Vido’s acquittal on the culpable injury charge and also confirmed his responsibility for the fraudulent administration, but the majority ordered the imposition of a new sentence, since the five years and eight months in prison imposed on him were not justified. A four-year prison sentence was therefore imposed, but the highest court upheld it.
By Vido He is also convicted of buying junk trains to Spain and Portugal and for illegal payments when purchasing gas but they are currently under review. In addition, he is currently on trial for the corruption notebooks and the Skanska case.
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