For the prosecutor, the role of the then president in illegal espionage should be investigated. / Photo: Pepe Mateos.
Federal prosecutor Franco Picardi requested new measures of evidence in the case of illegal espionage against Vice President Cristina Kirchner and the headquarters of the Instituto Patria, and remarked that it is necessary to “inquire about the role played in the aforementioned scheme” by then President Mauricio Macri.
In its ruling, the prosecution assessed that it is “imposed to inquire about the role that was played in the aforementioned organized scheme by the person who was the immediate superior of the defendants (former directors of the Federal Intelligence Agency, Gustavo) Arribas and (Silvia) Majdalani, the then president of the Nation ing. Mauricio Macri”according to the document to which Télam had access.
The same criterion was requested for “people who held public responsibilities and who acted at the direct service of the person named and could have served as a link or link for the transmission of orders and information related to illegal intelligence activities.”
It is the cause that investigates illegal spying on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the headquarters of the Instituto Patria between 2016 and 2019in the framework of which Arribas and his deputy, Silvia Majdalani, among other defendants, are being prosecuted.
“The global analysis of the particular circumstances that surround the events that make up this survey, and that intersect with the multiple investigations established around the actions of the AFI (Federal Intelligence Agency) during the mandate or management that took place between the years 2016 and 2019, as it has been exhaustively developed, requires inquiring into the role that the person who was the immediate superior of the defendants Arribas and Majdalani, the then President of the Nation Eng. Mauricio Macri, played in the aforementioned organized scheme,” said the prosecutor in an opinion dated April 11 and that was released this Thursday.
The case investigates the illegal espionage of the former president and the Instituto Patria during the macrismo / Photo: Camila Godoy.
Request for test measures
Picardi asked the judge in the case, Marcelo Martínez De Giorgi, to order new measures of evidence in this regard, and in particular, he referred to reports requested from mobile phone providers that came to court and based on which “it is pertinent” delve into that particular line of inquiry.
In addition, he claimed insist with the request for complete records of income and expenses to the Quinta Presidencial de Olivos and Casa Rosada between June and November 2018, of Arribas, Majdalani and others investigated.
On the other hand, he asked to reiterate a asked the AFI to provide the institutional telephone lines “timely assigned to Mauricio Macri, Gustavo Arribas, Silvia Majdalani, Alan Ruiz, Juan Sebastián De Stéfano and Bernardo Miguens, between the months of June and November of the year 2018”.
“The requirement must include subscribers corresponding to cell phones, land, encrypted, or others,” he clarified about a report that had already been requested at the end of last year and still had no response.
Finally, he requested that the Directorate of Assistance in Complex Crimes and Organized Crime of the National Judiciary (DAJuDeCO) gather “the records of communications and activated cells, of telephone subscribers” investigated between June and November 2018 and that later an analysis of the communications between them is made.
“The procedures described are imposed as the only way of knowledge available to reconstruct interactions possibly demonstrating intervention in the act of hierarchical superiors of the people involved up to now”he concluded.
