They ordered the immediate arrest of Lázaro Báez to serve the sentence in prison.

Federal Oral Court No. 4 of Comodoro Py ordered this Tuesday the "immediate arrest" of businessman Lázaro Báez so that he continues serving in prison the 10-year prison sentence that was upheld by the Supreme Court of Justice, within the framework of the money laundering case known as the "K Money Trail."

Currently, Báez is serving, although he should not be, house arrest at his residence in El Calafate, in the province of Santa Cruz. Yesterday, the Court also upheld his conviction and that of the corrupt former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who received a six-year prison sentence and a lifetime ban from holding public office in the "Vialidad" case.

"Order the immediate arrest and/or capture of Lázaro Antonio Báez for the purpose of serving the sentence imposed in the present case by final judgment, and his subsequent placement in a unit under the Federal Penitentiary Service in accordance with the considerations set forth," the Court ruled.

Judicial sources confirmed that the court ordered that officers of the Argentine National Gendarmerie (GNA) be responsible for transferring Lázaro Báez from his current place of house arrest, a residence located in El Calafate, province of Santa Cruz, to Unit 15 of the Federal Penitentiary Service, located in the city of Río Gallegos. For the time being, the businessman will remain housed in that facility.

The Court granted the request of federal prosecutor Abel Córdoba, who requested that Báez be transferred to a prison to serve the remainder of his sentence. In contrast, the businessman's defense, represented by attorney Juan Villanueva, had argued that the sentence was practically served and that Báez should continue under house arrest.

The core of the debate focused on how to calculate the time Lázaro Báez remained in custody. The businessman was imprisoned in connection with the case known as the "K Money Trail," related to the laundering of 55 million dollars, in the Ezeiza federal prison from April 5, 2016, to December 12, 2019.

After regaining his freedom, he was immediately placed under house arrest for another money laundering investigation related to the purchase of the "El Entrevero" ranch in Uruguay, a case in which he received a four-and-a-half-year sentence not yet confirmed. Since then, he has remained under house arrest.

According to the prosecutor, the period Báez was detained for the "K Money Trail" case amounts to three years, six months, and eight days, so he would still have to serve six years, six months, and 22 days of the total 10-year sentence.