Overview
- The trial started Thursday with prosecutors outlining charges that an illicit network solicited cash from contractors for favorable treatment between 2003 and 2015.
- Key evidence centers on chauffeur Oscar Centeno’s notebooks, which describe alleged cash drop-offs and meetings tied to public works and services.
- Cristina Kirchner remains under house arrest on a separate six-year fraud conviction and now faces a potential additional sentence of roughly six to ten years.
- Hearings will be conducted mostly online with more than 600 witnesses, and the process could stretch up to three years before any final resolution.
- Defense teams challenge the notebooks’ authenticity, and some businessmen who testified under “repentant” deals later claimed their statements were coerced.