Federal Prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan has formally requested ex-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner be investigated for alleged money laundering.
The measure was announced hours after the marathon testimony of Leonardo Fariña before Judge Sebastián Casanello yesterday. Former Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido was also implicated in the case.
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President Fernández was accused of being involved in a money laundering scheme (Photo: Presidencia/Télam)
Earlier this week, Lázaro Báez, a businessman and close associate of the Kirchner family, was arrested and questioned in the same money laundering investigation.
The businessman is accused of laundering at least US$5m through his company Austral Construcciones, which was created in 2003 and won a number of state contracts for public works during the presidencies of Néstor and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. According to the prosecution, money obtained through fiscal fraud was filtered through SGI Argentina, a financial consultancy firm in Puerto Madero known commonly as “La Rosadita”.
Fariña, who has been in prison for two years for tax evasion, has claimed he helped Báez move funds abroad. He reportedly gave up new information and evidence about the case yesterday in exchange for a potential reduction in his sentence.
Fernández is due to appear in court on Wednesday to face questions in a separate investigation into dollar futures traded by the Central Bank of Argentina last year.
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