‘Skanska’ Case: Two Kirchner-Era Officials Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
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‘Skanska’ case: Two Kirchner-era officials sentenced to five years in prison
Former Kirchnerite officials Julio De Vido and José López sentenced to five years in prison for bribery and fraud in corruption case linked to Skanska engineering and construction company.
The case arose after the revelation of journalist Pablo Abiad about the alleged coimas for the construction of the pipelines and the maneuvers to try to cover them up.
The Federal Criminal Court No. 4 sentenced former Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido to 5 years in prison in the “Skanska” case, one of the most important
The former Minister of Federal Planning of Argentina during the governments of Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández also received perpetual disqualification from holding public office.
Both former officials received a prison sentence of 5 years. The sentence linked the former Federal Planning Minister with irregularities in the extension of gas pipelines awarded to the Swedish firm, in one of the first scandals of Kirchnerist public works
The court found it proved that they had taken coimas in the process for the expansion of two pipelines and that they had defrauded the State; nine ex-directives of the company were also subject to penalties.
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