The federal judge of Santiago del Estero, Guillermo Molinari, charged and ordered the seizure of the cell phone of Silvio Robles, spokesman for the president of the Supreme Court and head of the Magistracy Council, Horacio Rosatti.
It is the result of a complaint filed by the governor of that province, Gerardo Zamora, who assured that the defendant “did not want to hand over his phones.”
After the presentation made by Zamora, the magistrate sent a letter through the Federal Police to notify Robles about the cell phone that is commonly used and also “another cell phone device that is in use (personal or official).”
In the official letter, the magistrate also lets you know that “the judicial fair has been enabled, and business days and hours for the present procedure.”
Also, in another letter sent to the secretary on duty at the Supreme Court fair, Molinari requests that he “proceed to receive and safeguard” Robles’ telephone and “every cell phone device that was delivered by Robles, having to ensure and maintain the chain of custody of the same for the purposes of safeguarding the means of possible proof, all drawing up the pertinent record”.
Governor Zamora’s complaint, presented yesterday, originated after leaks of chats in which Robles had a conversation with the Buenos Aires Minister of Security and Justice, Marcelo D’Alessandro, in which strategies were coordinated against the litigation for the co-participation that the Nation maintains with the Executive headed by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
The governor reported today on his social networks that “Dr. Silvio Robles, whom I denounced in Federal Justice for being involved in a serious institutional scandal without precedents, did not want to hand over his phones.”
“He would only have limited himself to making a presentation to the Court to request a study of the file by his lawyer, but without complying with the court order,” Zamora said.
Along these lines, he maintained that “with this, instead of helping to clarify -if it had nothing to do with the crime accused- it further obscures the legitimacy of the CSJN presidency”, and “continues to crack more and more , to the rule of law in the country…””Dr. Rosatti, I ask you again, what will you do now?… the Homeland does not deserve this,” said the governor at the end of his publication.
Yesterday, the governor of Santiago del Estero reported, also on his social networks, that he filed a criminal complaint with the federal prosecutor in charge of Santiago del Estero against “Dr. Silvio Federico Robles, spokesman for the president of the Court, for the crimes Influence peddling and breaching the duties of a public official, attentive to journalistic publications that have generated great public commotion, about chat leaks where the ruling in favor of CABA would have been fixed by the federal co-participation index”.
Zamora requested on that occasion that “how to protect the immediate delivery of his phones for official use” and others that he regularly uses to submit them to experts and achieve “the prompt clarification of this situation that is generating unprecedented institutional gravity.”
“Today not only do we see a fundamental pillar of the Nation threatened, which is federalism, but also, in the face of this fact, the very institutionality of the country and the validity of the rule of law are seen in crisis,” he warned.
Zamora maintained in that publication that “messages allegedly issued from the telephone of Marcelo D’Alessandro, Minister of Security of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), of dialogues with Silvio Robles, spokesman for the president of the Court, Horacio Rosatti; from which information arises, which, if true, would be conduct prohibited to a public official of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation”.
