US EditionArgentine ex-president Kirchner goes on trial in new corruption case
More than 600 witnesses will testify in a trial expected to last up to three years, examining a bribery ring involving public works contracts and political campaign financing.
- On Thursday prosecutors began reading the indictment, opening the trial against Cristina Kirchner and co-defendants after the Supreme Court of Argentina last week rejected over 20 appeals.
- Centeno's notebooks first emerged in mid-2018 after journalist Diego Cabot published photocopies, prompting an investigation into nearly 12 years of Oscar Centeno's records of cash trips tied to public works contracts.
- More than 600 witnesses are expected and the trial could last up to three years; accused businessmen tried last September to avoid trial by offering up to $15 million and property, while Carlos Wagner provided lists of undeclared payments.
- The trial will be conducted primarily through videoconference/Zoom hearings, and a final resolution could take years due to appeals and the almost 90 defendants involved.
- Prosecutors allege a 2003–2015 fundraising system where the Kirchners received illicit money tied to public works contracts, business testimonies cite forced contributions, and experts say the trial could weaken this criminal market.
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The Star Kuala LumpurArgentina's ex-President Kirchner on trial over public works bribery scandal
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentine former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner went on trial on Thursday on charges of bribery tied to public works contracts awarded during her administration. The
The morning of this Thursday, November 6, began the oral trial for the so-called Cuadernos Cause, the largest corruption trial in the history of Argentina that involves former president Cristina Kirchner.In the judicial instance, the ex-mandataria is presented as the alleged head of an illegal bribery collection association, for which 19 high kirchnerist charges and 65 businessmen, among others accused, must also be answered.In early June, the f…
The trial will begin this Thursday at 9:30 and in a virtual way. An illegal association is judged, in which the former president is accused of being the boss, who operated from 2003 to 2015 to receive bribes from state contractors. I followed all the news about the trial for the Cuadernos case in the minute-to-minute coverage of Clarín.
For nearly 12 years, Oscar Centeno, the driver of a high office of the governments of Nestor and Cristina Kirchner, meticulously recorded every trip he made with bags loaded with money, the product of alleged bribes that construction companies paid in exchange for contracts with the State. He detailed schedules, routes, names —and even the weight of the bags when it was impossible to calculate how many dollars were inside them. The school notebo…
Former Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, already sentenced to house arrest and ineligible, is tried from Thursday in another prison...
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