Overview
- A three-judge panel at the Tribunal Oral Federal N°5 ordered the long-running Los Sauces and Hotesur inquiries to be tried as two successive oral, public trials while the Cámara de Casación reviews an appeal on reunification.
- Nineteen people are accused, including former president Cristina Kirchner and deputy Máximo Kirchner, who face charges of illicit association and money laundering tied to alleged transfers from public-contract and tax-related proceeds into family businesses.
- Prosecutor Diego Velasco has appealed the split, arguing the conduct amounts to a single money‑laundering offense, and defenses have opposed reunification saying it would disrupt the trial schedule and affect the validity of any sentence.
- The tribunal set detailed in‑court rules requiring fully in‑person hearings in the AMIA courtroom at Comodoro Py with no virtual participation and a fixed weekly calendar to manage hundreds of testimonies.
- Parties agreed to cut an original witness list by roughly 30–40 percent and to admit prior instruction‑phase testimony without recalling witnesses, a move intended to shorten the trials and reduce their overlap with the political calendar.