In a key resolution in the road case, Chamber IV of Federal Cassation confirmed the confiscation of assets provided for in the judgment and ordered to proceed with the execution of the assets linked to the corrupt and convicted Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, her children Máximo and Florencia Kirchner, and businessman Lázaro Báez.
The ruling, adopted by a majority, responds to the fact that assets of illegal origin can be confiscated even if they have been transferred to third parties or received by inheritance.
In this way, the court supported the previous provisions of Federal Oral Court 2 (TOF 2), which had ordered the auction of properties and assets to guarantee the economic recovery established in the conviction.
The amount fixed in the judgment amounts to $684,990,350,139.86, a figure that must be covered by the execution of the confiscated assets.
The measure covers both the personal assets of the convicted and those belonging to companies considered central to the maneuver under investigation, including Austral Construcciones
and other related firms.In this framework, assets that had been transferred by inheritance to Máximo Kirchner and Florencia Kirchner were also included, reinforcing the view that the illicit origin of the assets prevails over their subsequent transfer.
During the proceedings, the prosecutor before the Cassation Chamber, Mario Villar, argued that those who intend to make a claim about the assets reached must resort to civil or administrative instances, without this implying stopping the execution of the confiscation ordered in the judgment.
