The court case for the production of the novel “Mama Corazón” regained relevance after the Attorney General's Office before the Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber requested to reverse the acquittal that had benefited Andrea del Boca, former minister Julio De Vido and other defendants in the oral trial.
The request was submitted by Attorney General Raúl Pleé to Chamber II of the country's highest criminal court, where he based the appeal of the ruling issued by the Federal Oral Court No. 7, which had acquitted all the defendants.
According to judicial sources cited by various media, the representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office provided an eight-page document requesting that the sentence be reviewed and that convictions be handed down for the defendants.
During the oral trial, prosecutor Fabiana León had requested three and a half years in prison for Andrea del Boca and four and a half years for Julio De Vido
.That request was now ratified by prosecutor Pleé in his ruling before the Cassation Chamber.
In addition, the Public Prosecutor's Office also requested the return of 3,126,000 dollars, which, according to the prosecution, were diverted from public funds earmarked for the production of the novel.
The case revolves around the state funding of “Mama Corazón”, a fiction that was produced with public funds but was never broadcast on television.
In his filing, prosecutor Pleé questioned the evaluation of the evidence made by the court that carried out the trial
.As stated in the ruling, Federal Oral Court No. 7 would have evaluated the evidence “in a biased manner”, which ended up favoring the defendants through the application of the principle of doubt.
