Tag: notebooks

• Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Another corruption charge for ex president Cristina Fernandez: fraudulent import of liquid gas

  

  Argentina's former president Cristina Kirchner was charged in yet another corruption investigation on Monday, in this case over the fraudulent import of liquid gas. Judge Claudio Bonadio, who Cristina Kirchner accuses of political persecution, requested that the ex-president be placed in pre-trial detention, but her partial immunity as a senator shields her from imprisonment.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Macri admits his father was part of an extortion system during the Kirchner years

  

  Franco Macri's dealings with the former Kirchnerite governments amount to a “crime,” Argentine president Mauricio Macri declared on Sunday in a wide-ranging primetime interview that touched on corruption, influence peddling, the October elections, former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's legal situation and his recently deceased father, Franco.

• Thursday, February 7th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez back in court for questioning at the end of February

  

  Argentine ex-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has – for the third time – been called for questioning under the framework of so-called “notebooks” graft case. Key business leaders and ex-public officials were also summoned, with prosecutors and judges probing alleged corruption and bribery centred on the ex-head of state's government.

• Tuesday, December 11th 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  Macri's father and brother to testify in court over alleged corruption practices

  

  The brother and father of Argentina's President Mauricio Macri are to testify in court this week over their alleged involvement in a huge kickbacks scandal known as the “corruption notebooks” case, reports said on Monday.

• 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.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 03:52 UTC

  Sony to manufacture notebooks in Tierra del Fuego

  

  Argentina’s Ministry of Industry announced Tuesday an investment of 30 million dollars for the manufacturing of mini-components, notebooks and LCD television sets in the province of Tierra del Fuego, extreme south of the country.