2023-08-30 03:13:00
The former Buenos Aires Minister of Security and Justice, Marcelo D’Alessandro, appeared this Tuesday, August 29, as a witness in the Committee on Impeachment of the Chamber of Deputies and there he continued to protect himself in article 18 of the National Constitution, He avoided answering if he knows the spokesman for the presidency of the Supreme CourtSilvio Robles, and described the alleged chat leaks between both officials as “an intelligence operation”.
After two unsuccessful calls in which he was absent for “personal reasons” and following an ultimatum from the ruling party that called him under judicial warning, the former PRO minister finally appeared at the hearing related to the cause “participation”for which an alleged plot of collusion and influence peddling between the Court and the Buenos Aires government behind the ruling that benefited the administration of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
D’Alessandro was cited in the wake of the revelations that emerged from the hacking of his cell phone, which brought to the surface suspicious conversations with Robles, the right-hand man of Horacio Rosatti, the president of the supreme court. “It was not a leak but an intelligence operation. There are people arrested who have confessed to the fact and what has been published is an internet page in which different chats have been supposed,” said the former minister.
The main line of investigation on which the ruling party is working is that this connection between D’Alessandro and Robles, which the minister refuses to confirm, was the spearhead to negotiate the ruling that finally benefited the Buenos Aires district by raise the membership fee from 2.35% to 3.75% for the jurisdiction governed by Larreta. The conflict began in January 2016, when former President Mauricio Macri justified that the transfer of the City Police should be financed.
The tense dialogue between D’Alessandro and the deputies of the commission
When answering a question from the Kirchnerist deputy Vanesa Siley, D’Alessandro recalled that your cell phone line from which the alleged conversations with Robles were leaked it was stolen”fact for which he himself immediately made the Complaint before the Federal Justice and the City Justice.
“It is not a presumption, but there is a lot of information from many tests that have been carried out and there are many people who have confessed because they have been hired for these intelligence tasks. It has already been confirmed that it is an intelligence operation,” D’Alessandro remarked.
Silvio Robles, Rosatti’s spokesman, denounced that he was “falsely accused” and that “his family was attacked”
For D’Alessandro, “the issue of the alleged chats has already been settled by Justice” by “having ruled on the criminal situation in these alleged contents that were seen on an internet page.” “I never had a criminal complaint in all my functions. And luckily this one might already be verified to the material authors and Hopefully the masterminds can be reachedhe continued.
Not satisfied with the answer, Siley asked him if these cases presented in courts of different provinces of the country are closed with a final sentence. “If they are closed, why are you relying on article 18?”, asked the legislator of the Frente de Todos mischievously, referring to the article of the National Constitution that indicates that “no one can be forced to testify once morest himself.” D’Alessandro’s response was ambiguous: “Some of those complaints have accumulated”.
Next, one of the supposed dialogues was read that D’Alessandro would have maintained with Robles according to what was published by a written means of communication, a fact that scandalized the opposition officials. In fact, the reading was challenged by Together for Changefor understanding that Justice demonstrated that it was illegally obtained through a cell phone hack.
PRO deputy Pablo Tonelli demanded that the reading of the shorthand version of the hearing be withdrawn, since these chats might not be taken as evidence in the investigation. His pair Alejandro Finocchiaro even said that Taking these alleged chats as valid was equivalent to taking a confession under torture as evidence..
“It is one thing for it to have been obtained illegally and another thing is to affirm the falsity of the contentsomething that has not been proven,” replied official Mara Brawer.
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In addition, when the former PRO official avoided answering if he knows Robles, relying on article 18 of the National Constitution, the deputy Ana Carolina Gaillard reminded him that false testimony It does not apply only to the action of lying, but to omitting the truth.
Meanwhile, D’Alessandro also avoided answering if he attended with Robles the attorney general birthday of the City of Buenos Aires, Juan Bautista Mahiques, on August 15 of last year. “Are private facts that do not serve the purpose of the commission”, he replied, once once more taking refuge in article 18.
On the other hand, when asked by Siley regarding the reasons for his resignation as Minister of Justice and Security, the witness He denied having been pressured to leave the government.: “Under no point of view. Nobody pressured me. They are absolute personal reasons. The function of minister of one of the most important cities in Latin America requires that one be 24/7, and the truth is that presenting yourself as a complainant takes away hours to management. But no one pressured me to resign,” D’Alessandro clarified.
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