Corruption: Court confirms jail sentence for Argentina’s ex-president Kirchner | EUROtoday

An Argentine court docket has confirmed former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s six-year jail sentence. The 71-year-old additionally stays banned from holding public workplace for all times. Kirchner was discovered responsible within the first occasion in 2022 of embezzling public funds throughout her time period in workplace and appealed.

Like the Argentine newspaper The Nation reported, Kirchner can even take motion in opposition to the judgment that has now been made by the Federal Criminal Chamber. She nonetheless has the chance to attraction to the Supreme Court Argentina to attraction. I’ll stay at massive till a last judgment is made there.

During their time in workplace, she and her now deceased husband, ex-president Néstor Kirchner, whom she changed in workplace in 2007, gave public contracts to a pleasant constructing contractor with out tendering. The former head of state is alleged to have introduced the state out of round one billion US {dollars}. She had rejected the allegations and accused the judiciary of investigating her for political motives.

Kirchner is as in style as he’s controversial in Argentina. She was vp below ex-President Alberto Fernández and was thought-about the actual mastermind within the authorities. They are additionally going through expenses of cash laundering in different circumstances Corruption decided.

Argentina’s present President Javier Milei had already strongly criticized Kirchner’s camp throughout the election marketing campaign. “Today we can confirm without any doubt that Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is guilty of corruption,” Milei mentioned on Platform X after the decision.