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Paulina Lebbos Case: the Main Defendant Was Acquitted and the Crime Went Unpunished

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The murder of Paulina Lebbos, which took place in February 2006, went unpunished. Justice of Tucumán acquitted, for the benefit of the doubt, César Soto, the ex-boyfriend of the victim.Judges Fabián Fradejas, Gustavo Romagnoli and Luis Morales Lezica also acquitted Sergio Kaleñuk, son of the then secretary of José Alperovich, governor between 2003 and 2015, who had not been charged by the Public Prosecutor's Office.Soto had come to trial on char…

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The murder of Paulina Lebbos, which took place in February 2006, went unpunished. Justice of Tucumán acquitted, for the benefit of the doubt, César Soto, the ex-boyfriend of the victim.Judges Fabián Fradejas, Gustavo Romagnoli and Luis Morales Lezica also acquitted Sergio Kaleñuk, son of the then secretary of José Alperovich, governor between 2003 and 2015, who had not been charged by the Public Prosecutor's Office.Soto had come to trial on char…

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Buenos Aires, 7 May (NA) – Leticia Nieva, the biological daughter of Paulina Lebbos, the young woman murdered in February 2006 and whose case had a judicial setback in the last hours with the acquittal of her ex-boyfriend Victor César Soto, spoke after the court ruling and reproached the decision made: “My mother was murdered and the State decided not to know who it was.” This Wednesday, Chamber 3 of the Conclusional Criminal Chamber of Tucumán …

The young woman, who does not live in the province, shared a letter on her social networks a few hours after the verdict in which her father was acquitted.

Writing Canal Abierto Twenty years after the crime of Paulina Lebbos, the Tucumana Justice handed down a ruling that once again exposed the matrix of impunity that went through the case from the beginning: the main defendant, César Soto, was acquitted for the benefit of the doubt and the crime was left blameless. The decision was made after an oral trial that lasted for 14 days, in which the court analyzed a file marked by irregularities, loss …

After almost two decades of investigation, marches and claims, the case for the crime of Paulina Lebbos was again left blameless. The Tucumana Justice acquitted César Soto, the main defendant in the case, for the benefit of the doubt, leaving the file again without convictions. The reaction of his father, Alberto Lebbos, was immediate and forceful. “It is excruciating,” he said after hearing the ruling, in a sentence that summarizes years of pai…

César Soto, appointed as the material perpetrator of the crime, was acquitted for lack of evidence. Sergio Kaleñuk, the son of José Alperovich's former private secretary, was also formally disassociated from the lack of charge.One of the cases that most marked the struggle of the women in Tucumán added a new chapter. After two decades of complaints, on Wednesday there was a new judgment for the femicide of Paulina Lebbos, which occurred on 25 Fe…

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diariopanorama.com broke the news on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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