The defense of the detainee ex-secretary of public works of Kirchner José López today called for absolution in the oral trial for illicit enrichment that is followed to the former official, considering that it could not prove that they were part of their patrimony the 9 million S of dollars he tried to hide in a convent of General Rodriguez in 2016. ” I request the acquittal of my defendant in order to the crime of illicit enrichment by allowing his freedom in relation to this cause “, were the words with which the official defender Pamela Bisserier closed the allegation before the Federal Oral Court (TOF) 1.La López’s defender insisted on the idea that the money his defendant transported was not his property, as the defendant had declared in the context of the cause of the “notebooks”, where he said that the transfer of the bags with the dollars had been ordered by Fabián Gutié Rrez, former private secretary of former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
One of the bags carried by José López to the convent of General Rodríguez
“The holding of any asset by my defendant does not mean that it is part of their heritage,” he said earlier, during an exhibition of more than five hours in one of the courtrooms of the building that houses the federal courts of Comodoro Py 2002. Lopez is being tried for illicit enrichment for the purchase of a house in Tigre and an apartment in Las Heras Avenue in Buenos Aires City, which would have been placed on behalf of Figureheads, and the nearly 9 million of dollars with which he was arrested during the early morning June 14th, 2016.
The Anti-corruption Office (OA) and prosecutor Miguel Ángel Osorio requested that López be sentenced to 6 years ‘ imprisonment, a fine of 100% of the value of the supposedly proven enrichment and the confiscation of the nearly 9 million of dollars with which he was detained .
His wife, María Amalia Díaz, the alleged figureheads Enrique Galera, Eduardo Gutiérrez and Carlos Gianni and the nun Celia Inés Aparicio, who were in the convent on the day the former official was arrested, are also tried. In addition to requesting the acquittal of Lopez by illicit enrichment, Bisserier requested that the part of the investigation referred to the episode of the convent be sent to the Federal Court 11, by Claudio Bonadio, “for corresponding with what is investigated in the cause of The notebooks and the money laundering “attributed to the environment of the deceased Muñoz. The trial, in charge of the judges Adrián Grumberg, José Michilini and Ricardo Basílico, will continue on Monday 20 with the allegations of the defense of the wife of Lopez and the following hearing is Scheduled for Thursday 23rd, judicial sources indicated. In this note:
