Tag: Judge Julian Ercolini

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  Argentina: CFK acquitted in gas overpricing case

  

  Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) has been acquitted in the case of alleged overpricing in the purchase of Liquefied National Gas. Judge Julián Ercolini's ruling also reached her former aides Julio De Vido, Roberto Baratta, and other officials of her administration.

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 09:03 UTC

  Ex president Cristina Fernandez will stand on trial on 26 February

  

  Former Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will stand trial for the first time on February 26, after a court rejected her bid to postpone proceedings over alleged embezzlement against her and other former government officials.

• Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 - 06:52 UTC

  Nisman's ex-wife, fearing for her family, drops out of lawsuit into the death of her former husband

  

  Argentine federal Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado, ex-wife of the late AMIA Jewish center prosecutor Alberto Nisman, removed herself from a lawsuit that prompted an investigation into the death of her former husband.

• Tuesday, May 15th 2018 - 06:36 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez formally charged of money laundering and illicit association

  

  Argentine federal judge, Julian Ercolini, on Monday began legal proceedings against former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (2007-2015) and her two children on charges of money laundering and illicit association.A statement from the court said that Ercolini had frozen assets belonging to the family worth 800 million pesos (some 32 million U.S. dollars).

• Monday, March 5th 2018 - 06:58 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez and cronies must face trial on public works contracts

  

  An Argentine judge on Friday said that ex-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner must face trial over alleged corruption related to the awarding of public contracts in her southern political stronghold of Patagonia.

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 08:21 UTC

  It's official: Nisman was murdered, and his ex secretary is charged as accessory to the crime

  

  Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who was found dead days after accusing former President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center, was murdered, a federal judge said on Tuesday

• Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 08:05 UTC

  Argentine demanding US$ 1.2bn compensation from Cristina Fernandez and cronies

  

  The Argentine government is demanding compensations of over 1.2 billion US dollars from ex president Cristina Fernandez, several of her ministers and staff, as well as businessmen benefitted by the Kirchner administrations, for damages caused by acts of corruption.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2016 - 07:30 UTC

  CFK says she is a victim of political harassment - equals her case to Lula's

  

  The former Argentine president said she is no friends with entrepreneur Lazaro Baez, who was awarded around 80 percent of all public works in the province of Santa Cruz when governed by her late husband and eventually president Nestor Kirchner.

• Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 08:19 UTC

  Ex Transport Secretary involves Nestor and Cristina Kirchner in purchase of out of service trains

  

  Discouraging week for the Kirchner family and followers, despite the fact that he name of their main political enemy, Mauricio Macri, has cropped up in the Panama Papers. Not only Lazaro Baez, the dominant public works contractor in Santa Cruz province, and believed to be a straw man for the Kirchner family has been arrested and faces questioning on a money laundering investigation, but also former Transport Secretary Ricardo Jaime implicated the Kirchner couple and a former minister in a multimillion purchase of damaged railway materials.