The Federal Oral Court 4 made the decision to unify the sentences imposed on Lázaro Báez, the businessman close to the corrupt former president Cristina Kirchner, for the cases known as "La Ruta del Dinero K" and "Vialidad." With this ruling by the judiciary, the businessman and former owner of Austral Construcciones must serve a total sentence of 15 years in prison.
Judges Néstor Costabel, Fernando Canero, and Ricardo Basílico determined that Báez must serve this unified sentence, in addition to facing a fine equivalent to six times the amount proven in the money laundering case, a sum that amounts to 54.8 million dollars. Currently, the businessman is being held in a prison in Río Gallegos.
In their ruling, the judges noted that they evaluated the multimillion-dollar nature of the scheme attributed to Báez, as well as the total control he exercised over those funds. They also highlighted the impact these actions had on the economic and financial order, which, according to the court, aggravates the content of the crime and its legal seriousness.
