Cristina Kirchner, the former Argentine president, faces a fourth trial in a corruption case, while she is a candidate for vice president in the presidential elections scheduled at the end of October..
This new case is linked to the file known in Argentina as “books of corruption”, in which the Kirchner administration is accused of taking bribes in exchange for granting public tenders, according to France 24 news channel, today, Saturday, and the date of the trial in the new case is not known yet..
Kirchner, 66, an Argentine senator with partial parliamentary immunity, says she is a victim of political persecution by the government of President Mauricio Macri, “right-of-center.”
The Public Prosecutor had ordered that Kirchner be held in preventive detention in the “corruption notebooks” case, but her parliamentary immunity prevented her from prison, not trial..
And the scandal of “corruption books” revealed on the first of August, after publishing the content of notebooks in which the driver of one of the officials accurately recorded the locations and dates of delivering bags of money to members of the Kirchner administration, from the heads of companies in the public works sector.
According to Attorney General Carlos Storneli, the value of bribes between 2005 and 2015 amounts to $ 160 million.
After being elected president for two terms between 2007 and 2015, Kirchner is a vice presidential candidate alongside presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez. She is currently the most prominent opposition figure and is still very popular..
Despite corruption charges, Fernandez and Kirchner lead the polls for the October 27 elections, ahead of the nominee for a second term, but he is in a weak position as a result of the serious economic crisis plaguing Argentina.
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