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Cuadernos Trial Admits Cooperators’ Files and Confessions, Sets Nov. 6 Start

The prosecution’s stance will decide whether proposed reparación integral payments allow many accused businessmen to avoid the courtroom.

Overview

  • TOF 7 issued a 244-page resolution incorporating 24 legajos of arrepentidos into the evidence, including statements by Oscar Centeno, Ángelo Calcaterra, Carlos Wagner, Aldo Roggio, José López and Ernesto Clarens.
  • A public Zoom hearing on Friday will let accused businessmen outline reparación integral offers, with formal monetary proposals due within 48 hours for the court and prosecutor to evaluate.
  • Judicial sources report the total sought for repair could approach about $40 million, while the government’s anti–money laundering unit (UIF) plans to oppose such agreements.
  • Prosecutors cite corroboration beyond the cooperators’ accounts, including the original notebooks forensically attributed to driver Oscar Centeno and supporting documentary records.
  • The upcoming oral trial will convene on Nov. 6 to judge Cristina Fernández de Kirchner with roughly 75 co-defendants, within a wider investigation that spans six connected cases and about 159 accused overall.