Overview
- The court restarted hearings with the reading of the 'La Camarita' tranche, which focuses on alleged cartelization of road‑works contracts during the Kirchner administrations.
- The accusation—naming Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and other former officials for illicit association—draws heavily on statements by arrepentidos Carlos Wagner and Ernesto Clarens.
- Clarens described weekly deliveries of roughly US$300,000, a 10% take for currency operations in the informal market, and estimated that up to US$30 million moved through this circuit.
- Witness accounts outline meetings where firms coordinated 'passes,' set a winner, and submitted cover bids, often targeting about 20% overpricing to generate returns.
- Prosecutors detail two complementary collection channels involving public officials (including Roberto Baratta, Nelson Lazarte, Hernán Del Río, José María Olazagasti) and businessmen (including Wagner, Clarens, José López), as the tribunal proceeds under a revised schedule for Dec. 9, 11, 16 and 18, with related-file requisitions set for Dec. 23 after a failed bid to recuse the court.