Federal Oral Court No. 2 has finally moved forward regarding Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's assets and ordered the forfeiture of 20 properties, within the framework of the enforcement of the Vialidad Case conviction, whose finality was ratified by the Supreme Court in June. The former president, together with Lázaro Báez, José López, Nelson Periotti, and the rest of those convicted, must return $685,000 million to society.
Judges Jorge Gorini, Rodrigo Giménez Uriburu, and Andrés Basso decided to proceed with the enforcement of assets to jointly cover the $684,990,350,139.86 established in the ruling. The decision details which properties are subject to enforcement and reaffirms that the forfeiture seeks to prevent corruption crimes from generating economic benefits for their perpetrators or their heirs.
In the case of Cristina Kirchner, the Court ordered the forfeiture of a property in her name and 19 other properties inherited by Máximo and Florencia Kirchner, received free of charge. According to the judges, these assets are part of the illicit economic flow caused by the scheme orchestrated together with Báez, the main beneficiary of the 51 irregular road tenders under investigation.
The "businessman" from Santa Cruz, Lázaro Báez, will lose more than 80 properties, including those belonging to the companies involved in the fraudulent scheme. The Court emphasized that Báez's assets experienced "exponential" growth between 2002 and 2014, fueled by overpricing, cartelization, advance payments, and a rigged contracting circuit.
