Tag: Kirchnerite corruption

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  CFK acquitted in corruption cases: Operations were legit, judges said

  

  Former Argentine President and current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her children will not be tried in the so-called Hotesur so-scandal case because there were no illegal actions involved, a federal court in Buenos Aires ruled Friday. Hence, all charges have been dismissed.

• Friday, July 10th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Massive protests in Argentina demand justice and freedom; president Fernandez pledges to end “the serial haters”

  

  Thousands took out to the streets in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires and the country's main cities with flags on Thursday, July 9th, Independence Day to protest pandemic restrictions for businesses, corruption, and magistrates decision to send under house arrest one of the most notorious characters of the country's corrupt practices in the awarding of public works contracts.

• Monday, March 23rd 2020 - 07:49 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez is back in Buenos Aires from Cuba with her daughter

  

  Argentine vice president Cristina Fernandez is back in Buenos Aires from Cuba with her daughter who has been under medical treatment in Havana for a year. The two immediately left for their home where they will comply with the mandatory fourteen day self isolation for any passengers arriving in Argentina from overseas because of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Friday, May 17th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez's first corruption trial confirmed for next Tuesday

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that ex-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's corruption trial can go ahead; after protesters demonstrated against rumours the case might be delayed. Trial is set to begin on Tuesday over accusations that CFK favoured businessman Lazaro Baez in the attribution of 52 public works contracts worth 46 billion pesos (US$1.2 billion) during her 2007-15 presidency.

• Friday, December 21st 2018 - 19:41 UTC

  Court says CFK must be tried for corruption and jailed preemptively

  

  An Argentine appeals court Thursday upheld the September decision by judge Claudio Bonadio whereby Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) must stand trial and be preemptively imprisoned throughout the proceedings for having allegedly received millionaire bribes from businessmen in the Kirchnerist governments (2003-2015).

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

  Maximo Kirchner appeared in court but refused to answer questions

  

  Argentine national deputy Máximo Kirchner and eldest son of former presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, appeared in court on Tuesday morning to testify in the so-called ‘notebooks’ corruption case, probing the alleged payments of millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks siphoned off from public works projects.

• Friday, October 5th 2018 - 02:45 UTC

  Witness places “40 bags full of money” at Néstor Kirchner's mausoleum

  

  A former Rio Gallegos civil servant said Cristina and Máximo Kirchner were involved in the 2013 operation to prevent the cash from being found during a court-mandated raid. Danilo Alberto Penissi testified before Judge Claudio Bonadio in the investigation into the “notebooks of corruption” case.

• Sunday, August 26th 2018 - 02:35 UTC

  Macri blames the lack of infrastructure to rampant corruption under the Kirchners

  

  Argentine president Mauricio Macri linked the poor state of the country's infrastructure to the so called “K corruption notebooks”, but also praised that truth is coming to light and in just two years Argentina's standing in the Transparency rating had gone from position 54 to 17.

• Saturday, August 11th 2018 - 09:37 UTC

  'K notebooks' corruption: companies won't be punished for what employees may have done

  

  The Argentine government will allow companies whose officials are named in a corruption probe to continue work on existing projects and to bid for new ones. Contracts will be honored and companies won’t be punished for what employees may have done, Transport Minister Guillermo Dietrich said in an interview in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2018 - 07:01 UTC

  Construction executives confirm bribe payments in exchange for contracts under Kirchner governments

  

  Argentine prosecutors questioned a construction executive related to President Mauricio Macri on Monday as part of a sprawling investigation into bribe payments made to the former government. Angelo Calcaterra, the former head of construction company Iecsa and Macri’s cousin, told prosecutors he was told by officials in former President Cristina Fernandez’ administration to pay cash in exchange for public works contracts.