Cassation removes Calcaterra from notebook case: it says his payments to officials would not be bribes

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Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation with the judges’ votes Diego Barroetevena, Carlos Mahiques And Daniel PetroneThe construction businessman decided to stop Angelo Calcaterracousin of Mauricio Macribe decided in the bribery notebook case, maintaining that his case should be analyzed by the electoral justice system, not the criminal justice system.

According to the Camaristas, Calcaterra had not paid bribes to maintain his functions, but rather had made electoral campaign contributions that were not declared. The measure extends to the other executive of the Iecsa company, Héctor Javier Sánchez Caballero, but the criterion could also affect defendants from other companies.

The same judges decided yesterday to analyse whether the same situation applies to the case of three other businessmen who admitted to contributing money to Kirchner officials. Armando Lawson, Hugo Dragonetti and George Balan. If these requests are successful, the bribery notebook trial could be cleared of businessmen and only Cristina Kirchner and her former officials would be prosecuted.

Judges Barroetavena, Mahiques and Petrone decided: “to allow the appeal filed by the private defense of Ángel Jorge Antonio Calcaterra and Héctor Javier Sánchez Caballero, to annul the appealed decision, to declare the jurisdiction of the National Criminal and Federal Correctional Court No. 1 to interfere with the electoral jurisdiction in the facts that are attributed to the people named in the present case.” Thus they referred the case to the federal court with María Servini as electoral judge.

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