The Supreme Court rejected appeals by Carlos Wagner and Julio De Vido against the case of the bribe notebooks

The Supreme Court of Justice rejected this Wednesday a series of proposals from the defenses of the former Kirchnerist minister Julio De Vido and the businessman Carlos Wagner in the cause of bribery notebooks. This was reported by spokesmen for the highest court.

De Vido, former Minister of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Public Services of the Nation, had raised an exception of lack of action by the Financial Information Unit (FIU) as plaintiff, which was rejected in successive instances.

Wagner, former head of the Chamber of Construction, had questioned his prosecution for illicit association and active bribery in seven facts. The Court refused to deal with his case because what he was questioning was not a final sentence “nor comparable to such.” Wagner, then, will continue to be prosecuted. The ruling was signed by the four judges of the court, Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti.

Meanwhile, in another file, the defense of the Kirchnerist businessman Gerardo Ferreyra He questioned the decision that rejected his release. As the freedom of Ferreyra has already been ordered, the matter to be studied by the highest court turned abstract and, therefore, a pronouncement of the Court in the case was declared “inofficious”. Ferreyra was vice president of the Electroengineering Group and was released on royal bail.

The case of the Cuadernos de las coimas, the product of an investigation by THE NATION, is already elevated to oral trial. She is a mega cause that has 159 defendants – all released – and 899 witnesses.

“It is the most extensive investigation of acts of corruption that has been carried out in Argentine judicial history, comparable to a few worldwide,” said the prosecutor. Fabiana Leon in a report published on the official website of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

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