Former Federal Planning Minister julio de vido Requested this Wednesday Sentenced to 4 years in prison under house arrest for former railway accident This was confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Information from judicial officials clarion David’s lawyer is Maximiliano Rusconi and Gabriel Palmeirofiled this motion in the Federal Oral Court No. 4, which ruled that the former minister must appear in the Komodoro Pi court tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. to be remanded in prison.
De Vido’s defense team requested house arrest. 75 years – The law allows you to charge this type of arrest based on age starting at 70 years old – and health problems They said they would not allow him to go to jail. In addition, after the court’s decision, they applied to the Supreme Court to have the decision revoked, but the matter has not yet been resolved.
Mr. de Vido requested that the residence order be fulfilled at his farm in Zarate, Buenos Aires. “It appears he was arrested this Thursday.” When asked about the impact of the house arrest request, a judicial source told this media:
In any case, the Fourth Federal Oral Court is expected to take action on the proposal this Wednesday. For this reason, he has already asked the public prosecutor’s office for an opinion.
There is a procedure for requesting house arrest. The reasons for the request need to be analyzed, including medical studies to determine their health status and whether they can be treated in prison. To achieve this, a socio-environmental survey will also be carried out at the proposed location.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed De Vido’s four-year prison sentence for the Onse tragedy. The Supreme Court rejected the defense’s request for a reduced sentence and the prosecutor’s office’s request for an increased sentence. With this judgment, the former minister’s sentence is now final and ready to be executed.
A judge in the oral court decided so a few hours later. Ricardo Basilico. “It is appropriate to proceed with implementation.” The judge handed down the verdict and summoned de Vido to appear in court this Thursday at 8:30 a.m., with the second oral hearing to begin 30 minutes later. “Note of Depravity” The former minister is one of the defendants in the case, along with 85 other defendants, including former President Christina Kirchner and former officials and businessmen.
The Oral Court ordered that Mr. de Vido be connected to a hearing from headquarters once he is in custody.
The case in the Once tragedy, in which a Sarmiento Line train collided at the Once station on February 12, 2012, killing 51 people, was the first conviction de Vido was convicted of, and on that file he was never jailed.
He had already been detained at Marcos Paz Federal Prison since October 2017 for unrelated reasons, and was then placed under house arrest in December 2019. In 2020, he was released from prison and has been a free man ever since.
In December 2018, the former minister was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison at the second oral hearing of the case on charges of mismanagement in the management of public funds that were not earmarked for railway projects. He was found not guilty of negligent destruction for the deaths caused by the crash.
The Supreme Court acquitted him of damages and maladministration liability, but ordered a new sentence. The Court of Cassation set this period at four years, and the Supreme Court confirmed this.
In a statement, Rusconi argued that the Supreme Court had confirmed De Vido’s decision. “With questionable speed and apparent opportunism, it has violated its own precedent and exceeded its absolute jurisdiction.”
He also argued that in his opinion the case was time-barred and that their requests for it were rejected by the Oral Court and the Federal Court of Criminal Cassation. However, the case was still pending in court.
“For all these reasons, we have today filed an appeal with the Supreme Court for review and annulment. We hope that the seriousness of this proposal will receive the attention it deserves, and given the institutional significance of what is happening at such a dark stage for the future of the rule of law, we will present it to the Geneva-based Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN) in the coming hours,” he concluded.
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