Tag: Lazaro Baez

• Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 22:52 UTC

  CFK faces arrest and political lifelong ban

  

  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

  

  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”

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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”

  

  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.

• Tuesday, December 3rd 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner accuses the Judiciary and media of demonizing leaders of popular democratic governments

  

  Argentina's ex-president Cristina Kirchner arrived in court on Monday to give evidence in a corruption trial in which she is charged with diverting public funds, just a week before she returns to the country's government as vice president.

• Tuesday, August 27th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentine court rejects request to throw out a corruption case against ex president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  

  An Argentine court rejected on Monday a request from lawyers to throw out a corruption case against former president and current vice-presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.