Overview
- On Wednesday the Anillo Digital license‑plate network flagged a Honda CR‑V registered to Máximo Kirchner at the Justo Daract checkpoint, and police briefly detained him while verifying a judicial seizure order.
- Authorities initially reported the Honda was seized but later officials said the car was left with its owner as a depositario judicial and Máximo Kirchner was allowed to continue his trip after about two hours.
- A day earlier police in San Luis intercepted and put a RAM 2500 registered to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at judicial disposal after the same electronic alerts detected a 2019 oficio ordering seizures tied to the Hotesur investigation.
- Both interventions trace to a Feb. 28, 2019 oficio signed by Judge Julián Ercolini that listed vehicles for immobilization, and they were executed using pórticos and camera readers connected to federal policing databases.
- The incidents have split coverage and political reaction — Kirchner allies call the actions errors or attempts at 'disciplinamiento' while officials say they carried out standing federal orders — and they could force judges to clarify the validity and execution of old seizure orders ahead of related trials scheduled for 2027.