Federal Prosecutor Guillermo Marijuán has requested that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and former Economy Minister Axel Kicillof be called into questioning on charges of covering-up and hiding information in their testimony. Neither Cristina nor Kicillof are allowed to leave the country until further notice. However, it should be noted that Marijuán opened the case back in June — not as a direct result of the televised exposé — and that former Treasury Prosecutor, Angelina Abbona is the main suspect of helping to cover up the “irregular” financial transactions. The hypothesis is that her office received the information on suspicious financial activity by Báez, requested by NML in 2013, and that it was willfully hidden from the judicial system because it had allegedly been deleted from the system. Federal Judge Sebastián Casanello, in charge of the Lázaro Báez case since 2013, has to decide whether or not to accept the prosecutor’s request: only then can Cristina and (or) Kicillof be called to the federal courthouse Comodoro Py for questioning.

Source: The Bubble August 24, 2016 19:41 UTC