Overview
- A three-judge panel in Rosario’s Sala 7 imposed nine years in prison and lifetime disqualification from public office on the former regional prosecutor.
- Judges found him guilty of organizing an illicit association, aggravated passive bribery and embezzlement of services, while acquitting him of ideological falsehood.
- The court held that he provided judicial cover in exchange for payments to entrepreneur Leonardo Peiti, part of a scheme that ran from 2017 to 2020 across several Santa Fe cities.
- Judicial employee Nelson Ugolini was sentenced to five years for membership in the association and bribery, with a 10-year bar from public employment.
- Prosecutors had sought 12 years, and the case was built with wiretaps and testimony from convicted collaborators including Peiti and ex-prosecutor Gustavo Ponce Asahad.