Overview
- Makintach’s attorneys, Nicolás Corleto and Nicolás Urrutia, presented the nullity motion before Judge of Guarantees Esteban Rossignoli, challenging the San Isidro prosecutors’ charging document.
- Prosecutors José Amallo, Carolina Asprella and Cecilia Chaieb imputed her for cohecho pasivo, violación de los deberes de funcionario público, abuso de autoridad, malversación de caudales públicos and peculado de servicios, alleging she accepted a commercial proposal and advanced the filming of Justicia Divina using her judicial role.
- The defense argues the accusation violates Article 300 of the Buenos Aires procedural code by failing to specify time, manner and place of the conduct attributed and by aggregating heterogeneous episodes without a clear legal link.
- The motion contests evidence as illegally obtained, targeting the testimony of Makintach’s aesthetic doctor as a breach of medical secrecy under Article 236 and alleging months of restricted access and concealment of key records.
- Makintach remains suspended and faces a Jurado de Enjuiciamiento process after the first Maradona death trial was nullified on May 29 over the documentary, with prosecutors having also requested her destitution to proceed with the criminal case.