Road Cause | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and prosecutor Diego Luciani appealed the ruling today

The defense of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, headed by lawyer Alberto Beraldi appealed today the ruling of the case mediated as “roads”, which investigates an alleged diversion of funds from the public road works of Santa Cruz between 2003 and 2015, in which the former president was sentenced on December 6 to six years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office for fraudulent administration. Meanwhile, the Prosecutor’s Office also appealed the case and requested that the sentence of Fernández de Kirchner be aggravated for the crime of illicit association, for which she was acquitted in the trial.” The sentence handed down against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner does not have direct evidence to support it, but rather was based on a series of circumstances that the magistrates qualified as indications, “said the defense of the former president. For its part, the Prosecutor’s Office stated that “the very serious factual circumstances verified by the Court conform, without major efforts, to the requirements of the criminal type of illicit association.” The presentation by the parties was filed before the deadline which is Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. Fernández de Kirchner’s defense made a presentation of 395 pages, while prosecutor Diego Luciani did it in 525 pages. On December 6, judges Jorge Gorini, Rodrigo Giménez Uriburu and Andrés Basso sentenced former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, businessman Lázaro Báez, former Secretary of Public Works José López, former head of the National Directorate of Roads Nelson Periotti and five former officials of Santa Cruz to sentences of between six and three years of prison. Meanwhile, former Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido, former officials of that portfolio Abel Fatala and Carlos Santiago Kirchner and former Santa Cruz official Héctor Garro were acquitted.In the case the 52 public road works that Báez’s companies received for Santa Cruz during the governments of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner were analyzed. 

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