Alperovich to go to trial for sexual abuse

José Alperovich will be put on trial for the complaint filed by his niece in 2019 for sexual abuse. This was determined by the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 35 of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. In May, the Public Prosecutor’s Office requested that the case be brought to trial because the former governor of Tucumán accumulates three accusations of sexual abuse, of which two of them were committed in an attempt, in addition to six other acts of sexual violence aggravated by having been with carnal access. In 2019, Alperovich’s niece and then assistant, who at the time was serving as a national senator, denounced that the events had taken place in 2017, both in Tucumán and in a department of Puerto Madero. The woman also pointed out the psychological pressure she suffered from the accused due to the inequality of power between the two. The former official testified for the first time on April 20, 2022 in an investigation that lasted an hour and a half. There he dissociated himself from the facts and refused to answer questions. Then, through his social networks he wrote: “I made an extensive discharge of my defense, analyzing all the evidence presented in the case and demonstrating that it is a false complaint in order to exclude me from the political scene.” From that moment on, the case was folded and proceeded to be processed in two different jurisdictions. On the one hand, in the criminal and correctional jurisdiction of the City of Buenos Aires and in turn in the Tucuman Justice. However, after the intervention of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, from May the facts were in charge of the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 35 of the City of Buenos Aires and José Alperovich must undergo an oral trial. After the last legislative elections, the politician did not renew his seat and is no longer part of the National Congress.

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