Judge dismisses part of the proceedings against Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner
The Argentine federal judge Julián Ercolini announced this Monday the dismissal of the process opened against the vice-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in the case opened against her for alleged bribes known as ‘the notebooks of bribes’.
“Throughout the present investigation, no elements could be incorporated to establish the existence of such payments and/or the person/s who would have made them,” Ercolini explained in his ruling, the Télam news agency reported.
The alleged payments made by business people linked to public works, Enrique Pescarmona and Franciso Valenti, emerged from the notes in the notebooks of Fernandez’s driver Oscar Centeno.
In one of the facts, an alleged payment that would have been made on May 29, 2008, “the person who would have made it could not be reliably established”, according to the magistrate.
The same situation “is observed in the payment that would have been made on May 28, 2015, for which the person who would have made it could not be established either”, even though Centeno’s notes, the businessman Valenti appeared.
Regarding payment to Pescarmona on April 22, 2010, “the evidence incorporated would not allow advancing concerning this event with the degree of certainty required for this stage,” he concluded.
The decision means dismissing part of the accusations, although other processes related to the so-called ‘notebooks’ case continue.
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