In his ruling, he stated: "The defense has failed to demonstrate that, in the particular circumstances surrounding the incident, the alleged fear of bias is objectively substantiated".
Through a complaint appeal, the lawyers turned to the Supreme Court of Justice. There, judges Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz, and Ricardo Lorenzetti rejected the motion, considering that "it is not directed against a final or equivalent judgment".
In the case, the prosecution keeps that the agreement reached in 2016 between the government at the time—headed by Mauricio Macri—and the company to exit bankruptcy proceedings was detrimental to the State.
The agreement, which was never judicially approved, stipulated that Grupo Macri would pay a sum of 300 million pesos (661,387,000 pounds) over a period of 15 years, with an interest rate of 7%. This implied a write-off of 98.87% of the total amount owed.
The case remains in the hands of federal judge Ariel Lijo. The last evidentiary measure was ordered in 2019 by the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber, which ordered an accounting expert report to determine the value of the credit that the State had verified in the company's bankruptcy as of June 2016.
Technical information was also requested regarding the criteria to be used to calculate the interest that this credit would have accrued up to the date of the hearing held on June 28, 2016.
As part of that same decision, judge Lijo requested a comparison between "the value of the State's credit and the value of the proposal made by Correo Argentino SA and accepted by the representatives of the National State," with the aim of establishing whether there was a reduction and, if so, calculating its magnitude.
