translated from Spanish: Memorandum with Iran: New Requests rejected to close the case

The trial prosecutor Marcelo Colombo asked to reject the proposal of the Vice President of the Nation, Cristina Kirchner, and other defendants to close the case for alleged cover-up of the attack on the AMIA from the signing of the Memorandum with Iran during her tenure as president. The prosecutor before the Federal Oral Court 8 asked to dismiss the arguments of the defenses that maintained that there was no crime with the signing of the treaty and that it was a political decision, not judicialized. In addition, they charge that the treaty that was signed does not interrupt the arrest warrants of the accused Iranians. Initially, the defenses questioned the way in which the case filed in the first instance by Judge Daniel Rafecas, and then the Federal Chamber, was reopened.In addition to the former president, in the case are prosecuted the current Treasury prosecutor, Carlos Zannini; the Minister of Development of the Buenos Aires community, Andrés Larroque; Senator Oscar Parrilli and the Deputy Minister of Justice of the Nation, Juan Martín Mena, among others. Judges Mariano Borinsky and Gustavo Hornos, members of the Chamber of Cassation, are the ones who reopened the case. The defendants maintain that these judges acted irregularly, since visits were recorded by them to the Quinta de Olivos and the Casa Rosada during the presidency of Mauricio Macri.Then the proposals were extended to that there was no crime in the case and the Court enabled the discussion. Now, the prosecutor asked that everything be rejected. “Unlike the future dollar case, the supplementary instruction had determined that there was an expert study that said that there was no economic damage to the State, one of the points that make up the fraudulent administration. There Cassation applied that rule because the new evidence allowed to demonstrate that the figure was not configured. That did not happen here so we are going to request the rejection of the new incidences of the exception of lack of action, “Colombo said.In addition, he said that to determine if there was a crime or not the trial should be carried out. And that for this, the Court has already enabled the evidence to be discussed in an oral and public debate. Previously, the prosecutor had already dismissed the proposal against the reopening of the case due to the visits of the cameramen to the presidential residence. The original complaint was made by prosecutor Alberto Nisman four days before he appeared dead in his apartment in Puerto Madero, a circumstance that is also being investigated. The decision is now in the hands of the Court made up of Judges Gabriela López Iñiguez, Daniel Obligado and José Michilini, who have no established deadlines.

Original source in Spanish

Related Posts

Add Comment