The Federal Court of Cassation of Argentina ha reopened two dismissed cases against the vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for which it could now be submitted to oral trial.
The first cause has to do with a money laundering trial: the so-called Hotesur-Los Sauces causewhich bears the name of two companies related to the Kirchner family, and which investigates alleged maneuvers through these firms through which money laundering from the awarding of public works would have been incurred.
For this reason – which initially were two and ended up being unified – Fernández was prosecuted for the alleged crime of money laundering, but fIt was dismissed in November 2021before the start of the oral trial.
The Federal Court of Criminal Cassation has also decided this Monday separate the judges Adrián Federico Grünberg and Daniel Horacio Obligado, who in 2021 had voted in favor of the vice president’s dismissal.
The alleged crime of cover-up
The second reopened case is related to Fernández’s signature on a memorandum with Iran in 2013, which would have covered up the Iranian suspects in the 1994 attack against the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA).
This trial began after a complaint from prosecutor Alberto Nismanthat a few days after making public the accusation against Fernández appeared dead in his apartment with a gunshot to the head.
Fernández, along with other officials of her Government, was prosecuted in this case for the alleged crime of concealment and dismissed in October 2021 by the Federal Oral Court 8, before the start of the oral trial.
