The fourth hearing in the Cuadernos case trial once again put the Kirchnerism corruption scheme under scrutiny. Financier Ernesto Clarens, who turned state's witness and is a key figure in the case, testified about how he began working for the Kirchners by receiving illegal payments from public works businessmen and delivering that money to the late presidential secretary Daniel Muñoz.
According to the request to proceed to trial read during the hearing, Clarens recalled that Muñoz once asked him for 500-euro bills because "they took up less space". He detailed two usual delivery locations: rooms at the Panamericano Hotel and, when the sums were larger, the residence used by Néstor and Cristina Kirchner on Juncal and Uruguay streets. There, he said, Muñoz would wait for him in the building's lobby. He never went up to the apartment, but he did leave the bags.
Federal Oral Court 7 resumed the hearing after some technical problems forced brief interruptions. Starting this week, sessions will be held twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, speeding up the process of reading the prosecution's requests.
In the afternoon, it was scheduled to move forward with the testimony of the late presidential secretary Fabián Gutiérrez, also a state's witness, whose statements are part of the case file. Gutiérrez described a point of interest in the Kirchners' residence in El Calafate: a white door located at the bottom of the stairs. Among the secretaries, it was said that "that's where the story was," the place where the packages arriving on presidential flights were stored.
