Less than two weeks after her departure from power, Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner received very bad news on Tuesday: the judiciary reconsidered a previous resolution and reopened a case that accused her of money laundering.
The case is commonly referred to as the “K Money Route,” a money laundering case valued at $55 million. In June, the two-time president was acquitted, but the Federal Court in Buenos Aires reopened the investigation and sent it back to the pass. sentence on who closed it, Sebastián Casanello.
Lázaro Báez sentenced to ten years in criminal prison for the case. Báez won a large part of the public works contracts of the Kirchnerist governments and is designated by the courts as a front man for her former president and her husband and former president Néstor, who died in 2010.
“Without indictment, there is no criminal proceeding,” the ruling said in June of the decision of the prosecutor in charge of the case, Guillermo Marijuan, not to qualify the former president. This was due to the fact that two plaintiffs representing the State, the Financial Information Unit (UIF) and the Federal Revenue Administration (AFIP), had withdrawn from the case.
The UIF and the AFIP had presented the government of Mauricio Macri as plaintiffs, but withdrew the government of Peronist Alberto Fernández.
The reopening of the case on Tuesday came after the presentation of the Civil Association of Republican Bases, an NGO of the PRO, party of Mauricio Macri, which asked to be accepted as a plaintiff and demanded the reopening of the case. One, the Federal Chamber moved forward with the reopening.
“The addition of this new player also makes it possible to re-examine the merits of the case,” the court ruled.
Fernández de Kirchner, who faces other judicial disorders in addition to the current ones, claims to be a victim of “lawfare”, an alleged conspiracy of the political, judicial and media powers that oppose him.
The former president (2007-2015) will leave her position as vice president on December 10, when the government of ultra-liberal populist Javier Milei takes office. Fernández de Kirchner recently trusted that, without holding any position or privilege over her, she would continue to do politics from the countryside.
On the same day, Macri was acquitted in a case opened for espionage against the relatives of sailors killed in the sinking of the ARA San Juan submarine during his term. The former president did not drop the subject and also spoke about Macri’s candidacy for vice president in the elections of the Boca Juniors soccer club.
“Postcards from an Argentine morning: Macri demonstrated his impunity in the case of the death of the 44 members of the ARA San Juan, he revoked my dismissal in the ‘K money’ case and, as it turns out, he does not win “They gave justice to suspend the elections in Boca five days before they take place,” said the former president of X.