Lazaro Baez awaits decision from El Calafate on his future

2024-07-28 08:41:06

The former president of Austral Construcciones spent a week in Santa Cruz awaiting crucial definitions of his judicial future, which will be revealed next August.

The businessman was sentenced to 10 years in prison in “Money Road” for laundering $55 million, but he was held in Ezeisa prison from 2016 until four and a half years later when he was put under house arrest and in a Serve your sentence in the house.

Baez was transferred by land to a house in El Calafate last week and continues to serve his sentence under house arrest. In the same place he will wait for his fourth sentence. In the case known as “El Entrevero,” the document stems from a “money route” that sought to hide the true nature of the $14 million purchase of a luxurious plot of land in the Uruguay town of José Ignacio through various companies and fronts. owner.

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The debate has entered its final stage and will resume next Monday, July 29, and judicial activities will also restart. Báez faces sentencing requests from UIF and AFIP, the two organizations serving as plaintiffs, for sentences of nine and seven years respectively, while prosecutor Abel Córdoba asked for a six-year prison sentence.

TOF 4 is expected to hear the last argument of the day, which will be the defense of Maximiliano Goff Dávila, owner of the company Traline SA, according to the suitcase, Leonardo Fariña, who represented Báez in the purchase of the property which later passed into the hands of Jumey Sociedad Anónima, the company’s The owner is Daniel Pérez Gadín, a former accountant at Austral Construcciones.

After the debate, the court will decide whether to enter the rebuttal and defense stage, and then the defendant will make a final statement and then the verdict will be read.

But that’s not the only definition that former business partners Nestor and Christine Kirchner will continue to focus on. The businessman is awaiting a ruling from the Federal Supreme Court, which will decide whether to uphold, increase or reduce the six-year prison sentence in the “Road” case, in which he was convicted along with the former president. In the same court but with a different configuration, his sentence in “Money Road” was reduced from 12 to 10 years.

In the “Viality” case, prosecutor Diego Luciani appealed the decision of the Second Oral Chamber. Convicted of participating in an illegal association and shall receive a heavier sentence.

Lázaro will remain incarcerated under the supervision of an electronic anklet. His lawyer, Juan Martín Villanueva, insisted to TOF 4 that the main reason for asking him to transfer was to be closer to his four children who lived in the South.

For the moment, Lazaro is relieved that the “Hotesur – Los Sauces” trial in which he is accused together with Cristina Kirchner will not begin in the near future. This is because the Supreme Court must decide whether the defendant should be tried.

The document investigates money laundering through Alto Calafate or Las Dunas (property of the Kirchner family), which Lazaro managed through his Valle Miter company.

Precisely, the court must also establish its position in the dispute between the Federal Court and the Commercial Court of Buenos Aires over the assets of Austral Construcciones.

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