US EditionArgentine ex-president Kirchner goes on trial in new corruption case
Cristina Kirchner leads 87 defendants in a trial over an illicit bribery network linked to public works contracts with over 600 witnesses expected, trial may last three years.
- On Thursday, the trial opens against Cristina Kirchner, former President of Argentina, as alleged head of an illicit bribery ring, with 19 former Kirchner administration officials and 65 businesspeople among the defendants.
- Oscar Centeno's notebooks, kept for nearly 12 years and surfaced in 2018, documented trips transporting cash, with prosecutors alleging Cristina Kirchner organized illicit fundraising from 2003–2015.
- More than 600 witnesses are expected to testify, and the trial could last up to three years; some defendants offered $15 million, a Miami apartment and a yacht, but prosecutor Fabiana Le�n rejected these offers.
- Last week the Supreme Court of Argentina rejected more than 20 appeals, clearing the way for prosecutors to begin reading the indictment Thursday in the complex mega-trial with almost 90 defendants.
- Amid concerns about institutional capture, experts stress the trial's wider significance as Pedro Biscay and Martín Astarita say it highlights recent capture of the public sector and may weaken illicit political financing.
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Former Argentine President Cristina Kirchner has been in charge of another corruption trial in court since Thursday. The trial is about alleged bribe payments from companies in return for government orders. The prosecution classifys the case as the largest bribe investigation in the country's history. The trial is expected to move over the entire coming year, with hundreds of witnesses being charged. The trial is mostly carried out by video conf…
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In Argentina, the biggest corruption process in the history of the South American country has begun.
«I am not afraid, history will put things in place». With this phrase the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner referred to the trial initiated this Thursday in Argentina, which will feel her again on the bench of the accused. The ex-mandataria, from her home prison, faces a new judicial process for bribes. It is the Cause of the Cuadernos, in which there are also accused former officials of her government and more than 60 businessmen.…
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Kirchner on trial in Argentina's 'biggest ever' corruption case
Argentine ex-president Cristina Kirchner, already serving a six-year fraud sentence under house arrest, went on trial Thursday in a new corruption case described as the biggest in her country's history.
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