Overview
- Court president Enrique Méndez Signori formally opened the TOF 7 trial as prosecutors began reading Carlos Stornelli’s indictment alleging Fernández de Kirchner led an illicit association and committed bribery.
- All 87 defendants appeared via Zoom for the inaugural session, which is being broadcast on the judiciary’s YouTube channel for public access.
- The first hearing was briefly halted by transmission and camera problems, and the court ordered every accused to remain visible before resuming proceedings.
- Hearings will run on Thursdays, with Tuesdays added from March 2026, starting with the reading of six elevation-to-trial filings in a process expected to take years with more than 440 witnesses.
- The case traces back to Oscar Centeno’s notebooks and includes about 540 alleged illegal payments; earlier proposals for ‘integral reparation’ were rejected, and Fernández de Kirchner, connected from home detention, criticized the process as a political show.