Former Federal Planning Minister Julius Vido announced that he would appear before the board of directors of the United Nations body (united nations) His arrest should be realized tomorrow following the order of the Federal Oral Court No. 4, where he was convicted of fraud against the state in the backdrop of the 2012 railway tragedy at Onse station, in which 51 people died.
The move was announced by his attorney. maximiliano rusconisaid in a harshly critical article that the Supreme Court yesterday rejected one of his prosecution materials and upheld the four-year prison sentence ordered by TOF 4, which deemed him a participant in maladministration crimes in 2018.
At the same time, Mr. De Vido, 75, has asked the court to allow him to serve his sentence at home, a source close to the former official said.
“With questionable speed and obvious opportunism, contrary to its own precedents, the Federal Supreme Court completely exceeded its jurisdiction and dismissed, without even mentioning, the complaint in which the defense questioned the legitimacy and sentence of the sentence imposed by the Third Chamber of the Federal Court of Cassation,” the statement said.
Rusconi said the Supreme Court “didn’t have jurisdiction” to rule on the case because the statute of limitations claim in the criminal case was still pending.
For this reason, in addition to having already submitted a request for retrial to the Supreme Court, the company announced that it will file a new request for retrial to the Supreme Court. Working Group on Arbitrary Detentiona United Nations expert body dedicated to investigating allegations of illegal detention, which publishes non-binding “opinions” as a result of its work.
“Given the alarming nature of the situation and the impending arbitrary deprivation of freedom of the architect de Vido, we call on this group of experts to act through the procedure of ‘urgent action’ and call on the Argentine government to take the necessary measures from the judicial authorities to prevent this unlawful deprivation of freedom from becoming a reality,” the text continues.
Defense attorneys for the former Kirchner official argue that the crime of maladministration for which he was convicted in 2017 is a serious crime. up to 6 years It is subject to criminal penalties, and the statute of limitations expires on December 10, 2024.
“Almost seven years have passed, Full text (i.e. it is integrated with the determination of liability and the imposition of penalties for the materiality of the facts). “Any decision to deprive a person of liberty in this case, which has ceased to exist, is a new manifestation of a tort and violation of fundamental guarantees,” argues the former official’s lawyer.
After the court dismissed the charges yesterday, the TOF judge who was in charge of enforcing the judgment said: Ricardo Basilicothe former minister was summoned to court to be arrested. He was first called at 10 a.m., but it was moved up to 8:30 a.m. because it coincided with the start of the second trial on the bribery notebook. The proposed amendment states that “the necessary steps will be taken to ensure the relevance of the above discussion.”
De Vido is free. In addition to the sentence for Once’s tragedy, two other sentences weigh heavily on him. One is a four-year fraud charge for the purchase of junk trains to Spain and Portugal, and the other is a similar fraud charge for the purchase of liquefied natural gas, which is part of the Note’s extended case.
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In November 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, of which De Vido is a member, issued an opinion against the arrest of the leader of the Tupac Amaru neighborhood organization Milagro Sala. He claimed his detention was “arbitrary”. He considered that the charges against her were not clear, in addition to the fact that the leader was arrested in the framework of a peaceful protest in Plaza Belgrano, Jujuy province, and that she was a member of Parla Sur.
Sarah was not released, and in May this year the Supreme Court upheld a uniform sentence against her. 15 years imprisonment by Extortion, unlawful association, fraud and intimidation.
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