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Ex-Argentina president seeks house arrest following corruption conviction
Argentina's former president Cristina Kirchner has requested to serve her six-year corruption sentence under house arrest, her lawyer confirmed, following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold her conviction and ban from public office.
The former Argentine president asked the Justice to serve the sentence of six years in prison at her home in Buenos Aires.
The defense of ex-mandataria Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) filed an application with the Argentine court, following a ruling of the Supreme Court against the Peronist leader, so that the sentence imposed, 6 years in prison, would be served under the form of house arrest, without the use of electronic anklet. The application submitted to the Federal Oral Court 2 argues the need to guarantee the safety of Fernández, who is currently 72 year…
Last thing yesterday, Cristina Kirchner’s lawyer Alberto Beraldi filed a brief with the president of the Federal Oral Court No. 2, Jorge Gorini, for the former president to serve home prison in the department of the constitutional district where she currently lives. Judge Gorini, through an office sent yesterday to Patricia Bullrich as Minister of Security, required him “within 24 hours” to try to assign a dependency of the federal forces, be it…
The former president will have to turn herself in in the next five working days at Comodoro Py. La Cámpora proposes a stage of resistance. The key and uncomfortable place of Axel Kicillof
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