In a new chapter that once again places at the center of the debate the differential treatment of the political leadership convicted of corruption, former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was admitted this Saturday to Sanatorio Otamendi, a high-complexity private clinic located in the City of Buenos Aires, after presenting a "case of intense abdominal pain".
According to sources close to the former president who spoke to the media, Cristina Kirchner was initially treated in the apartment at San José 1111, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución, where she is serving house arrest. After an initial evaluation, the health professionals determined that it was necessary to carry out more exhaustive medical tests, which is why her transfer to the medical center was ordered.
The procedure had the corresponding judicial authorization, a mandatory step within the framework of the house arrest regime that applies to the former president.
Cristina Kirchner, 72 years old, is serving house arrest after having been convicted in the case known as "Vialidad", one of the most emblematic investigations of structural corruption in public works. On June 10, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation upheld the sentence handed down in November by Chamber IV of the Federal Court of Criminal Cassation, confirming the sentence of six years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office for the crime of defrauding the State. The ruling also ordered the forfeiture of approximately 84,000 million pesos.
During the last week, the highest court also confirmed the obligation that the former president use an electronic ankle monitor as part of the conditions for serving the sentence. In the ruling signed this Thursday, the Court decided: "To summarily reject the challenges filed against judges Horacio Daniel Rosatti, Carlos Fernando Rosenkrantz and Ricardo Luis Lorenzetti; to dismiss, due to lack of autonomous grounds, the appeal directed against the placement of an electronic monitoring device and to declare a further pronouncement by the Court unnecessary in the remaining matters".
