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Montevideo, May 30th 2026 - 04:16 UTC

Tag: Lazaro Baez

  • Friday, May 29th 2026 - 07:51 UTC

    Argentine justice advances on 111 assets of the Kirchners and Lázaro Báez in Vialidad case

    Following the Cassation ruling, all that remains for Cristina Kirchner and her children is to file a direct complaint before the Supreme Court

    The Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber of Argentina on Thursday rejected the extraordinary appeals filed by former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, her children Máximo and Florencia, and businessman Lázaro Báez against the confiscation of 111 assets ordered as part of the Vialidad case. The decision, adopted by the court's Chamber IV, virtually closes the path to the country's highest tribunal and clears the execution of the asset-related measures associated with the conviction for fraudulent administration imposed on the former president in December 2022 and confirmed by the Supreme Court in June 2025.

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  • Wednesday, November 19th 2025 - 23:39 UTC

    Assets from CFK and Lázaro Báez seized

    In the court's view, these properties, such as Los Sauces (photo), were the “proceeds or profits” of the criminal scheme carried out between May 2003 and December 2015

    The Federal Oral Court # 2 (TOF 2) in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires has ordered the seizure of real estate and funds valued at an updated total of US$684,990,350,139.86 in the ongoing case concerning fraudulent administration against the State's Motorroads Bureau (Vialidad).

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 22:52 UTC

    CFK faces arrest and political lifelong ban

    CFK is likely to be granted house arrest given her age

    Argentina's Supreme Court (CSJN) unanimously upheld a six-year prison sentence and lifelong disenfranchisement from public office for former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) in the Vialidad case, which involved irregularities in awarding 51 public road works contracts in Santa Cruz to businessman Lázaro Báez.

  • Wednesday, November 13th 2024 - 18:03 UTC

    6-year prison sentence against CFK upheld

    CFK was acquitted of illicit association but the prosecution will appeal the ruling

    A federal court of appeals in the City of Buenos Aires Wednesday unanimously upheld the six-year prison sentence on former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK), who had been found guilty in December, 2022, of fraudulent administration in the so-called Vialidad Nacional case. She was also disenfranchised for life from public office. The scandal involved numerous public works in the province of Santa Cruz awarded to businessman Lázaro Báez in fudgy dealings.

  • Wednesday, November 30th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

    Argentina: CFK likens court trying her to “a firing squad”

    Those who brought back the IMF and borrowed 45 billion dollars have no problem - they are in Qatar watching the World Cup, CFK said about Macri

    Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) likened the court to a firing squad in her “Last Words” Tuesday before judgment is passed in the case against her for alleged acts of corruption during her two-term presidency (2008-2015) regarding spending by the National Highway Administration (DNV).

  • Thursday, August 25th 2022 - 19:52 UTC

    Alberto Fernandez: “Nisman committed suicide, I hope Luciani does not do something like that”; the prosecutor replied

    “I do not know the meaning he wanted to give to what he said but it is not a good message”, said Luciani.

    The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, said an unfortunate phrase in a television interview while trying to defend Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) from the corruption accusation for the so-called Causa Vialidad (Road Cause). The statement generated repudiation from the Judiciary, the opposition and an immediate political impact.

  • Wednesday, August 24th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

    Argentine opposition wants President Fernández impeached

    Nothing has been proven, CFK insisted Tuesday

    Argentina's opposition Juntos por el Cambio (Together for Change) coalition Tuesday favored the impeachment of President Alberto Fernández, who had spoken in favor of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner after prosecutors requested a 12-year prison sentence for her in a corruption case from when she was head of state.

  • Monday, August 1st 2022 - 20:38 UTC

    CFK's links with Báez proven beyond doubt, Argentine prosecution claims

    Despite all efforts to distance herself from Báez, CFK's links with the corrupt businessman have been established, the prosecution insisted

    Argentine Prosecutor Diego Luciani Monday claimed there was “enormous relevant evidence” against current Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and 12 other defendants in a corruption case regarding public works in the province of Santa Cruz between 2003 and 2015.

  • Thursday, February 25th 2021 - 10:22 UTC

    Argentina: the icon of Kirchners' business friends sentenced to 12 years in jail for money laundering

    Lazaro Baez, was granted almost a billion US dollar in public works contracts during a decade

    Argentine justice despite its disrepute has inflicted a mighty blow to the dominant force of the country's political system since 2003, the Nestor and Cristina Kirchner couple, currently headed by the widow Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

  • Friday, July 10th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

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

    Demonstrators in the Obelisk and in front of Government House. Caravans of cars and pedestrians wave Argentine flags and demand freedom and justice

    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.

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