Argentine Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was convicted and sentenced Tuesday to six years in jail and a lifetime ban from holding public office for a fraud scheme that embezzled $1 billion US through public works initiatives all through her presidency.
Her supporters had vowed to paralyze the nation if she had been convicted
Argentine Vice-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was convicted and sentenced Tuesday to six years in jail and a lifetime ban from holding public office for a fraud scheme that embezzled $1 billion US through public works initiatives all through her presidency.
a three-choose panel found the Peronist chief responsible of fraud, however rejected a cost of working a authorized group, for which the sentence might have been 12 years in jail. it is the essential time an Argentine vice-president has been convicted of in the direction of the legal guidelines whereas in office.
The sentence isn’t agency till appeals are decided, a course of that would take years. She stays immune from arrest in the meantime, as prolonged as she will maintain getting elected.
Her supporters had vowed to paralyze the nation if she had been convicted. They clogged downtown Buenos Aires and marched on the federal courtroom constructing, beating drums and shouting as they pressed in the direction of police obstacles.
Fernandez roundly denied all of the accusations. Argentina’s dominant chief this century, she was accused of improperly granting public works contracts to a constructing magnate intently tied to her household.
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