The president of the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires, Mariano Llorenssuggested the possibility of impeach him and arrest a Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner reviewing – together with your colleagues Leopoldo Bruglia and Pablo Bertuzzi— an indictment that he had issued Claudio Bonadio against the vice president for the alleged use of the fleet of presidential planes to transfer objects to El Calafate. Llorens—whom CFK referred to as the “Liverpool goalkeeper” after what Page 12 revealed that judges and prosecutors played soccer in the fifth of Mauricio Macri— had already demanded that the cases against the vice president be unified.
When he was leading the cause of the “notebooks”, Bonadio used certain statements to build a new case against CFK. On that occasion he said that the former president had used the presidential planes to move newspapers and furniture to the south of the country. For this fact, CFK had to testify in the marathon day that included eight inquiries.
The judge prosecuted her for embezzlement and the Federal Court partially validated it while refusing to annul all of Bonadio’s actions —because it had been the same judge who denounced CFK and then evaluated his conduct—. Last May, Chamber II of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation —with the votes of Alejandro Slokar and Carlos Mahiques— annulled the resolution of the House and ordered that the proposals of the vice president be re-analyzed.
The three members of Room I —everyone arrived at the court during the macrismo— they insisted on confirm CFK processing. However, they said that it was not appropriate to prosecute her for sending diaries or summaries made by the Press Secretary because it was part of her task as president. They only supported the processing of her for the alleged shipment of furniture or household linen.
A oscar parrilliBonadio had prosecuted him in his capacity as Secretary General of the Presidency and because, as such, he was responsible for the budget for the aircraft fleet and the management of the Military House. In his case, the Federal Chamber ruled him lack of merit and ordered the judge who has the case to continue with the investigation.
What was unique about the ruling was the tone used by Llorens, who did not omit any type of “reproaches” and made considerations about a “state corruption scheme”, quite in tune with the accusation that the prosecutors Diego Luciani and Sergio Mola they did in the public works trial in Santa Cruz, where they asked that CFK be sentenced to twelve years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office.
Lawrence did not avoid involving the children of the former president in the resolution —which are not part of the investigation—. “Both she and her family were the direct beneficiaries of the use of services paid for with the national budget,” she wrote. Although she said that the transfer of newspapers did not merit a criminal charge, it did merit an ethical one and she dispatched herself with a series of disquisitions that led to suggest to the judge who has the file —Sebastián Casanello— that he evaluate whether CFK cannot hinder the investigation and, therefore, his detention should not be evaluated.
The chambermaid did not tie himself to the file mast, but He asked to see other causes and even mentioned facts of “public knowledge” when evaluating the behavior of CFK. “Nor can it be ignored that a comprehensive and joint perspective of all these files revealed the instrumentation of a state corruption scheme, established between 2003 and 2015 with different manifestations”maintained without specifying what was the comprehensive and joint review that it mentions.
Llorens said that his vote was intended to be an “orientation” to solve the “structural damage generated” for facts such as those investigated in that file. “They showed a permanent break with prudence, moderation and austerity as indisputable guides of the behavior that must be assumed by those to whom the exercise of public function is entrusted, and whose origins can be recognized in our revolutionary deed, revealing of a vigorous repudiation of the ambition”, he wrote without holding back. “In front of them it is our obligation, that of the judges, to pronounce that truth and reveal the real dimension of the facts that we know in the exercise of our role,” he claimed.
In Comodoro Py —which are not usually surprised by almost any failure—, several colleagues of Llorens drew attention to the incendiary tone. “A resolution like this does not leave anyone in a good position”evaluated a magistrate who cannot be pigeonholed by any type of sympathy with the front of all.
Before signing this resolution, Llorens rejected unify research on Federal Revolution —the group that calls for a “bullet for Kirchnerism” and carries guillotines and torches to its protests— with the attempted assassination of CFK. In July, together with his two colleagues, dismissed Macri considering that the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) spied on the relatives of victims of the ARA San Juan, but it did so because presidential and internal security were at stake. In December of last year, he had said that lThe macrista spies were self-employed and that there was no systematic espionage plan during the Cambiemos administrationrefusing to see the cases as a whole as it now proclaims with CFK.