Justice raided Edgardo Kueider’s office in the Senate

By order of Justice, Gendarmerie troops raided the office of Edgardo Kueider in the Senate, within the framework of the alleged collection of bribes of the private security company Securitas when he worked in charge of Enersa, the state company of the province of Entre Ríos, during the Peronist government Gustavo Bordet. The procedures continued until late into the night and also included two offices that belonged to two of the legislator’s advisors.

The judicial officials, accompanied by members of the Airport Security PoliceThey entered Kueider’s offices in the annex and the Legislative Palace.

The raid became possible after the Senate, last week, expelled Riders and, therefore, left him without immunity.

The scandal surrounding the senator escalated when he was detained on the Paraguay border with $211,000 undeclared. The frustrated border crossing gave the judge the opportunity to revive the local case in which he is being investigated for the alleged collection of bribes.

After the expulsion, as part of a new package of measures, Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado ordered the search of her office, but to enter, at the mercy of an article of the Penal Code, she needed the endorsement of the body’s authorities. Victoria Villarruel, in charge of the Upper House, agreed to the request.

As stated in the official letter that Justice sent to the Senate, article 226 of the Federal Criminal Procedure Code states that “for the entry and registration of Congress, the judge will need the authorization of the president of the respective Chamber.”

In the brief, the judge stressed that within the office that Kueider intends to protect – she presented an injunction with that objective, among others – “evidence could be found that would allow corroborating the criminal hypotheses under examination.”

The entrance to the former senator’s office is just one of the legs of a cause that has its mirror in Paraguay. There, where he intends to remain, the former senator “is not subject to the process,” considered a local source familiar with the investigation. “Paraguayan justice could free him,” he added.

The violation, which finally crystallized with the expulsion, is the first knot in the bond with which the local Justice intends to bring Kueider back from Ciudad del Este, where he is serving the house arrest ordered by the Paraguayan judge. Humberto Otazu Which does not imply that the senator, once here, should remain detained, highlighted a source who works on the case.

Apart from the extradition law, the country has a particular treaty for that purpose with Paraguay, where they hope to be able to carry out a lengthy process. “[la extradición] It is a legal figure that leaves no room for unilateral decision; Coordinated work is needed,” warned an actor from the Paraguayan Public Prosecutor’s Office, who is waiting for some formal signal from the local Justice Department.

When the case arises, the judge Salgado CreekYou must submit another request, this time to the Executive Branch, so that an appeal can be processed through the Chancellery. However, the Paraguayan justice system could reject it and try it there first. “If we work in a coordinated manner, this conflict can be resolved and the delivery to Argentina can be facilitated,” the same voice insisted.

The raid was not the only setback that the former senator faced this Friday. The judge in administrative litigation Enrique Lavie Pico rejection in limina the amparo action presented by the Entre Ríos leader and thus ratified the validity of the session that expelled him from the Senate, after a border control surprised him with $211,000 undeclared trying to cross from Foz do Iguazú, in Brazil, to Ciudad del Este, in Paraguay.

Riders He has been imprisoned in Paraguay since the early hours of December 4.

The judge held that ruling on the session exceeded the scope of his powers, which is limited to “resolving effective collisions of rights; “not to express an opinion in the abstract about the validity of acts carried out by other powers of the State referred to.”

According to the ruling, to which he agreed THE NATIONThe decision of the senators who on the 12th of this month removed Kueider from his seat for moral inability “cannot be reviewed in this judicial headquarters because its examination constitutes a exclusive and exclusive competition attributed to the Senate of the Nation” by article 66 of the national Constitution.

In this way, the magistrate dispelled the controversy surrounding the validity of the session that the Senate took from Kueider, which was chaired by Victoria Villarruel while the president JavierMiley He was traveling to Italy, one of the points on which Kueider based his protection.

Kuieder, together with his lawyer Maximiliano RuizHe argued that the castling of power between the President and the vice president is triggered automatically in the absence of the former. And, therefore, the record that is signed in front of a notary – a procedure that was not carried out before the vote – is a mere ritual which is carried out only to leave a formal record of the change at the Head of State.

“Since the President left the country – Kueider stated in his writing – the President of the Honorable Chamber of Senators began to hold the position of President in charge, thereby He could NOT and should NOT, as a representative of the Executive Branch in office, preside over the Session that is challenged.” Milei himself supported this thesis, when he stated from Rome that the parliamentary procedure was “invalid”. However, Judge Lavié Pico silenced the controversy and left the Vice President out of the decision of the Upper House.