The federal judge of San Isidro Sandra Arroyo Salgado this Wednesday tested an explosive hypothesis about the death in 2015 of her ex-husband, the prosecutor Alberto Nismanpointing out that the alleged participants are linked to intelligence services linked to the company Río Turbio Carboniferous Deposits (YCRT), in Santa Cruz, now an official of the current national government.
The judge spoke at the weekly lunch of the Rotary Club of Buenos Aires, at the Hotel Libertador, where she assured that Corruption in Argentina is structural, since it covers the three powers of the State.
Arroyo Salgado described the Judicial Council as a “bureaucratic elephant” because, as he said, There should be more judges and prosecutors impeached and removed from office..
The magistrate’s speech drew applause among the Rotarians and exclamations of astonishment at her revelations made from the pulpit, although then he did not give further details.
The magistrate was for 16 years the wife of Alberto Nisman and mother of his two daughters. The prosecutor, who was investigating the AMIA case, was found dead shot in the head after denouncing the former president Cristina Kirchner for cover-up after the signing of the Pact with Iran.
At the end of her speech, at dessert time and questions from the audience, she was asked if she was optimistic about advances in research of Nisman’s death.
The judge responded: “It is difficult to determine who is responsible for this assassination, but the participants regarding whom there are reports, about who have their links in the intelligence services that are operating today in companies linked to all development in Turbid River and with links to public officials of the current government”.
The judge did not give other details. The cause of Nisman’s death is considered by Justice to be a homicide. The computer technician is prosecuted as a participant Diego Lagomarsinowho brought him the weapon with which the shot that ended Nisman’s life was fired. The prosecutor’s former custodians are being prosecuted.
Lagomarsino told THE NATION He actually met with the YCRT company, with the systems people, because they called him to provide technological solutions to the company. “I don’t know how the work was completed, we didn’t reach an agreement”he recalled and stated that there was no “secret” around that.
He explained that he even traveled to Río Turbio to see the company and that he did so with permission from the federal game. Julian Ercoliniwho is the one who investigates it. “It’s an idea that has nothing to do with it”said the computer technician, who indicated that he registered when he entered YCRT.
The prosecutor Eduardo Taiano investigates as a hypothesis that Nisman’s death occurred in the middle of a war of various intelligence groups premises that responded to Cristina Kirchner oa Jaime Stiuso. Testifying in the case, Stiuso suggested that Kirchnerist groups They were behind the crime.
Arroyo Salgado seemed to allude to press reports that indicate a alleged meeting at the Buenos Aires headquarters of YCRT between the manager Maxi Caceres and the intervener Pablo Gordillofor an hour and a half. Gordillo would be a historic Kirchnerist now appointed by the libertarian administrationafter the departure of the previous auditor for corruption.
The judge gave a talk about Complex Investigations and Credibility in Justice where he said that “corruption is structural and does not escape the three powers of the State. It is public order, but also civil society,” he explained, maintaining that “behind a corrupt official, there is a civilian who corrupts him.”
Arroyo Salgado mentioned that this situation “does not escape any political color or any Government.” It was there that he mentioned the ineffectiveness of Justice against organized crime.
He said that On the borders, drug trafficking takes over the State and the territoryacquiring fields to build clandestine runways and smuggle drugs. Along the same lines, he stated that Terrorism is not an academic category, but a debt to society and the victims of AMIA and the Israeli Embassy.
There he mentioned Nisman, “murdered four days after filing a cover-up complaint against the highest authorities of the Executive Branch.” He said the Iran deal was actually a “impunity pact for those responsible for the attack”.
“It is the greatest subjugation that our country had once democracy was resumed,” he indicated, while considering Nisman’s crime as “the event with the greatest institutional impact”because he was “a working prosecutor.”
He pointed out that “The great challenge is to combat the endemic and structural corruption that we havewhich is not only active corruption when we have seen judges, prosecutors, members of security forces, politicians, who are part of criminal organizations, but we also have in this scenario a passive corruption of not seeing, of not doing, of letting go.”
Arroyo Salgado understood that in the selection of judgesputting above all the honestyis the key to combating corruption.
When questioned, he complained that the Buenos Aires prisoners can have cell phones in their cellssaid he warned the provincial Minister of Justice about it Juan Martin Menawithout being successful in his claim, and emphasized: “It would be a good political decision for the governor Axel Kicillof transfer the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service to the Security portfoliojust as the president of the Nation did with the Federal Penitentiary Service.”
The judge said that with the corruption rates that exist there should be more judges dismissed. “The Council of the Judiciary, since it has such a plural integration and is made up of academics, judges, politicians, is like a bureaucratic elephant that hardly makes decisions in a timely manner regarding the magistrate who is not doing his job well,” he criticized.
Arroyo Salgado said that “with the corruption rates that exist in the Justice Department, in the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Defense Ministry, There should be many more magistrates who are subject to investigation processes, impeachment proceedings and also who are removed“, he concluded.
