Overview

• In closing arguments, prosecutors requested a five-year prison term plus absolute disqualification for twice that period, charging Pablo Carlos Molina with abuse of authority, violation of public duties and ideological falsehood.
• Defense counsel urged acquittal and the Federal Oral Criminal Court of Corrientes is set to deliver its verdict on July 29.
• Molina is alleged to have signed a 2014 order misrepresenting his wife’s and her alleged lover’s phone lines as tied to narcotrafficking to authorize illegal surveillance.
• Judicial personnel uncovered 28 compact discs in March 2019 containing recordings from September 18 to October 1, 2014, in which Molina insulted and threatened his partner.
• Molina and ex-judge Carlos Soto Dávila were previously convicted in 2023 of leading an illicit association to favor drug traffickers and had their penalties increased by the Federal Criminal Cassation Court in December 2024, with the Supreme Court now reviewing the sentence.