Former Federal Minister of Planning Julio de Fido I ordered this Wednesday House arrest to serve a four-year prison sentence for the railway tragedy Which was confirmed by the State Supreme Court.
Judicial sources reported Clarion That De Vido’s lawyer, Maximiliano Rusconi and Gabriele Palmeirobrought the claim before the Federal Oral Court 4, which ruled that the former minister must appear tomorrow at 8:30 am at the Comodoro Bay Courts to be detained in a correctional unit.
To request house arrest, De Vido’s defense claimed that he requested house arrest 75 years old – The law allows you to request this type of detention on the basis of age starting from 70 years Health problems That they would not allow him to remain in prison. Also, after the court ruling was issued, he submitted a request to the highest court to cancel it, which has not yet been resolved.
De Vido requested the stay-at-home order be implemented at his farm in the city of Zarate in Buenos Aires. “This Thursday he should appear under arrest.” A judicial source told “This Waseela” when asked about the effect of the house arrest request.
In any case, the Fourth Oral Federal Court is expected this Wednesday to take some action regarding this proposal. For this reason, he has already asked the Public Prosecutor’s Office for its opinion.
Requests for house arrest have a procedure. The reasons for requesting this must be analysed, including medical studies to determine the health condition and whether or not the condition can be treated in prison. A social and environmental study is also being conducted in the proposed location.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Di Vido’s four-year prison sentence over the Once tragedy. The Supreme Court rejected a request from the defense to reduce the sentence and another request from the Public Prosecutor’s Office to increase it. With this ruling, the ruling issued against the former minister becomes final and ready for implementation.
This is what the oral court judge decided hours later. Ricardo Basilico. “It is appropriate to move forward with its implementation.” The judge ruled and summoned De Vido to appear Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Half an hour later, the second session of the court’s oral trial took place. “The Corruption Notebooks” The former minister is one of the defendants, along with former President Christina Kirchner and 85 other defendants, including former officials and businessmen.
The oral court ordered that De Vido call the hearing from his headquarters as soon as he is arrested.
The case of the Once Tragedy, which occurred on February 12, 2012 when a train on the Sarmiento line collided at the Once station and killed 51 people, is De Vido’s first solid conviction and in this case he has never been imprisoned.
He had already been detained in Marcos Paz federal prison since October 2017 for other reasons until December 2019 when he was placed under house arrest. In 2020, he was released from prison and has been free ever since.
The former minister was sentenced in December 2018 in the second oral trial in the case to five years and eight months in prison for fraudulent management of public funds that were not applied to the railway service. He was acquitted of the crime of negligent destruction, due to the deaths resulting from the accident.
The Supreme Court affirmed acquittal of damage and liability for fraudulent administration but ordered a new ruling. The Court of Cassation set it at four years, which was confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Lawyer Rusconi confirmed, through a statement, that the Supreme Court upheld the sentence issued against Di Vido “With suspicious speed and clear opportunism, against her predecessors and in an absolute overreach of judicial authority.”
He also stressed that in his opinion the case fell under the law and that they had requested this, which was rejected by the Oral Court and the Federal Criminal Court of Cassation. But the case was pending in court.
He concluded by saying: “For all these reasons, today we submitted an appeal for reconsideration/cancellation before the Supreme Court, and we hope that it will receive the attention that the seriousness of the proposal deserves, and in the next few hours, and given the enormous institutional gravity of what is happening in such dark stages for the future of the rule of law, we will make a presentation before the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) of the United Nations Human Rights Council, based in Geneva.”
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