Cristina Fernández’s Legal Jeopardy

OE Watch Commentary: Former Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is facing what appear to be multiple uphill battles in the Argentinean justice system. The most serious, as noted in the first accompanying reference, is a charge of having conspired to cover up the culpability of Iranians implicated in the 1994 terrorist car bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. The cover-up was allegedly organized within the scope of an agreement with the Iranian government. The second accompanying reference is of a separate charge of government corruption. It mentions a third investigation on yet another corruption accusation. End OE Watch Commentary (Demarest)

“…Justice entered a case against ex-president Cristina Fernández for presumed illegal concealment...”

“…Justice…resolved today that opposition senator and ex-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015) be tried…”

Source: “Tres años después: Cristina Fernández irá a juicio por presunto encubrimiento de terroristas (Three years later: Cristina Fernández will face justice for presumed cover-up of terrorists),” El Cooperante, 5 March 2018. https://elcooperante.com/tres-anos-despues-cristina-fernandez-ira-a-juicio-por-presuntoencubrimiento-de-terroristas/

“The Justice [Department] resolved today that opposition senator and ex-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015) be tried for the crimes of fraud and illicit association…According to the accusation, the ex-chief executive and the rest of the accused participated in an association…purposed to commit crimes in order to illegally and deliberately take funds that had been assigned to public transportation works…”

Source: DPA, “Elevan a juicio oral causa contra Cristina Fernández (Hearing for cause brought against Cristina Fernández),” La Jornada, 2 March 2018. http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2018/03/02/elevan-a-juicio-oral-causacontra-cristina-fernandez-1756.html

“The Justice [Department] entered a case against ex-president Cristina Fernández for presumed illegal concealment, by way of an agreement with Iran, of those implicated in the attack against the Jewish Community Center AMIA of Buenos Aires…”