Overview
- Argentina’s Supreme Court rejected the prosecutor’s and the defense’s appeals as inadmissible under Article 280, leaving intact a four-year sentence and a lifetime ban from public office for fraudulent administration.
- The Federal Oral Court No. 4 ordered Julio De Vido to appear at Comodoro Py on Thursday at 10:00 to make his detention effective.
- Judges must still decide whether he serves the sentence in a prison facility or under home confinement, with the defense expected to seek domiciliary custody due to his age.
- De Vido was convicted in 2018 for failing to control public funds allocated to TBA and was acquitted of the separate charge tied to the crash’s deaths; the Court in 2024 ordered a recalculation that Casation set at four years in April 2025.
- The ruling stems from the 2012 Sarmiento line disaster at Once station, which caused more than 50 deaths and hundreds of injuries, and it also closes off the defense’s latest bid to have the case declared time-barred.