Tag: Néstor Kirchner

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 07:14 UTC

  US has offered to collaborate with the Argentine investigation of “K corruption notebooks”

  

  According to Buenos Aires daily Clarin, United States authorities have offered to collaborate with Argentine President Mauricio Macri’s government in the ongoing “K notebook scandal” by providing confidential information on a number of US bank accounts used to hold alleged Kirchner bribe money.

• Friday, August 24th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  Corruption scandal: Police searched homes of ex Argentine president Cristina Fernandez

  

  Police accompanied by sniffer dogs searched the homes of Argentina's former president Cristina Kirchner on Thursday as the investigation intensified into the so-called “notebooks” corruption scandal that has rocked the country.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Argentine Senate unanimously approves raids on properties from ex president Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentina's Senators have approved a judge's request for authorities to carry out raids on properties owned by former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, as part of a case investigating widespread corruption. Cristina Fernandez is currently a senator and was one of the 67 lawmakers who voted unanimously in favor of the motion.

• Wednesday, August 22nd 2018 - 06:43 UTC

  Argentines turnout to the streets to demand end to corruption and Cristina Fernandez immunity

  

  A massive demonstration concentrated in front of Argentina's congress in down town Buenos Aires to demand the removal of ex president and now Senator Cristina Fernandez immunities and the approval of a “dominium extinction” which would force “corrupt politicians” to return stolen money and assets.

• Friday, August 17th 2018 - 11:01 UTC

  Argentina offering reward for the recovery of assets from corruption scheme

  

  Argentina is offering a reward for information leading to the recovery of money from a case in which former President Cristina Fernandez is accused of leading a corruption scheme involving officials and business leaders.

• Monday, August 13th 2018 - 10:09 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez testifies on the “K notebooks” corruption scheme

  

  Argentine ex president Cristina Fernandez has called on her followers not to accompany her when, this Monday, she gives testimony at the Court House before Judge Claudio Bonadío in relation to the so called “K notebooks”.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2018 - 06:02 UTC

  Argentine ex-vice president Boudou sentenced to five years and ten months in prison

  

  Argentina's former vice president, Amado Boudou, was sentenced to nearly six years in prison on Tuesday after being found guilty of corruption while serving under former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The charges related to Boudou's attempt to buy a company that printed currency through a front business while serving as Cristina Fernández economy minister.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 07:18 UTC

  Odebrecht corruption in Argentina: all changed when ex president Kirchner died

  

  A leading manager of the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht involved in corrupting government officials in virtually all Latin American countries revealed that millions of dollars in kickbacks were delivered in Argentina to pay for the natural gas pipelines network expansion contract.

• Friday, March 16th 2018 - 03:11 UTC

  Falklands plans fishing talks with Argentina after more than a decade

  

  Exchanges of information between the Falkland Islands and Argentina about fish and squid stocks could begin again before the middle of this year, if all parties are in agreement. Director of Natural Resources John Barton said: “Dialogue with Argentina on the conservation of shared marine resources has the potential to allow for better management of shared fish stocks and improve sustainability of such stocks.”

• 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.