Federal Oral Court No. 7 rejected on Thursday the request for dismissal filed by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's defense in the case known as the Notebooks of Bribes, where an alleged illicit association and acts of corruption during the Kirchner administrations are being investigated.
The decision, signed by judges Enrique Méndez Signori, Germán Andrés Castelli, and Fernando Canero, also dismissed the plea of res judicata raised by attorneys Carlos Beraldi and Ari Llernovoy, which means that the former president will remain charged and must face the oral trial scheduled for November 6.
The defense had argued that, after Cristina Kirchner's acquittal in the Vialidad case, confirmed by the Supreme Court on June 10, there was an "overlap of the procedural object" between both cases, which would make applicable the constitutional guarantee that prohibits being tried twice for the same act. According to the attorneys, in both cases she was accused of being part of an "association aimed at committing undetermined crimes."
