DECRYPTION – Sentenced to six years in prison for corruption, the vice-president announces that she will no longer be a candidate in 2023.
Buenos Aires
If the verdict had been anticipated by Cristina Kirchner, it is nonetheless historic. Never has an Argentine vice-president in office been sentenced by a court. Former left-wing head of state (2007-2015) found guilty “fraudulent administration to the detriment of the State” in the Vialidad case, involving the awarding of public contracts in her political stronghold of Santa Cruz province while she was president. As such, she was sentenced to six years in prison and life ineligibility.
At the end of August, the prosecution had requested twelve years in prison against the Peronist leader, accusing her of having been at the head of “the biggest corruption operation in the country’s history”, with losses for the State estimated at nearly 40 million euros. On Tuesday, the judges considered that she had benefited from a “extraordinary fraudulent maneuver” involving eight of the twelve co-accused in this trial, including a former minister and an entrepreneur…
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