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Casación Sets Sept. 11 Hearing on AR$600 Billion Decomiso in Kirchner Vialidad Case

The panel will weigh whether to uphold the court experts’ calculation challenged by the defense.

Overview

  • The Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation summoned a Sept. 11 hearing before judges Mariano Borinsky, Gustavo Hornos and Diego Barroetaveña to review the confiscation amount after the Supreme Court left her six-year conviction firm in June.
  • Court experts updated the decomiso to about AR$600,000 million, whereas the original TOF 2 order referenced roughly AR$84,000 million subject to technical adjustment.
  • Kirchner’s filing contests the use of INDEC’s consumer price index and argues that applying Banco Nación’s passive rate, used in related cases, would produce a vastly smaller figure.
  • The defense asks to suspend enforcement of the financial measure and maintains she holds no assets that are the product or instrument of the offense.
  • In a separate track, her lawyers petitioned the Supreme Court to remove the electronic anklet and visitor restrictions in her home detention and sought to recuse three justices.