How the mighty have fallen.
Disgraced former Argentinan President Cristina Kirchner appeared in a Buenos Aires court yesterday, the second time in recent weeks, for her alleged connection to a corruption case that has shaken Argentina’s political class to its very core. (Yahoo News)
Two weeks after the Senate voted to partially lift senator Kirchner’s congressional immunity so that investigators could search her three homes for evidence linking her to the so-called notebooks corruption case, she was back before Claudio Bonadio, the judge leading the corruption investigation.
She was questioned for half an hour on Monday morning, having also been interviewed last month.
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The 65-year-old, president from 2007 to 2015 after succeeding her late husband Nestor, is suspected of having accepted millions of dollars in bribes from businessmen in exchange for public works contracts.
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Her former vice president Amado Boudou has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for “passive bribery” and conduct “incompatible” with his duties as a public servant.
For her part, Kirchner remains defiant, claiming that the due process she’s received is little more than a facade and arguing that the judge has presidential ambitions of his own.
This case is one of several the ex-president is facing. To many observers, her fall from grace mirrors that of former Brazilian president and fellow left-winger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, currently serving a 12-year prison sentence.
AAN Staff
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