The last week of the year 2022 will mark the closing of the oral trial for the former judge of Guarantees of La Plata Cesar Ricardo Melazoa debate that began on Monday, September 5, the same day that the former Cassation judge was dismissed and arrested Martin Ordoqui accused in a case that emerged from the one that is in the middle of closing the arguments stage. Last week with different arguments, the defenses attacked the criminal case while the name of a former Buenos Aires judicial official returned to the scene and one of the defendants was benefited from house arrest, in a resolution that was by majority.
This Monday the defenses will end their allegations. The replies are ready for Tuesday and it is estimated that the defense’s rejoinders and the last words of the defendants will be next Wednesday, December 28. Meanwhile, the verdict will be read next February 2023 after the summer judicial fair recess.
The defenses of those accused of forming an illegal association together with the former judge of Guarantees of La Plata requested the acquittals of all the accused in a new day of allegations developed in the Criminal Court of the silver. It should be remembered that the defense of the former guarantor magistrate also requested his acquittal and his immediate release. Nine cases are discussed in this oral trial (robbery, influence peddling, weapons), among them, the murder of Juan Faríaswhich occurred in a building in La Plata in 2010 and which was the kick that opened the case called “Megaband”.
The defenses that attend Carlos “Macha” Barroso Luna, Hector “Pepe” Vegathe insurance producer Carlos Bertonithe civilian Adrian “Quichua” Manes and the ex-commissioner Gustavo Burzstyn They asked the judges not to validate the proposal of the trial prosecutors Mariano Sibuet Y Victoria Huergo. They also criticized the work carried out by the investigating prosecutor betina lacki, whose work was confirmed by the Court of Guarantees, by the Chamber of Appeals and even by provincial Cassation. “It’s a puzzle that fits perfectly,” he said in his statement during the impeachment trial against former judge Ordoqui.
Each of the defenders, in turn, requested the acquittal of their assisted and that those who are still detained be released. But the most striking moment of the hearing was displayed by the lawyer Bruno Straseradefender of Enrique “Quique” Petrullo prosecuted for “influence peddling”. In his plea, he brought to the audience the figure of the former Provincial Cassation Attorney General, Carlos Altuve.
“It is worth clarifying at this point that it is not possible to explain how Petrullo is accused in this trial for having allegedly trafficked influences,” that the former Cassation judge Martin Ordoqui “has been accused of that same fact once his privileges were removed; and that Altuve has not even been notified of the formation of this cause,” the lawyer complained.
For that part, the Public Prosecutor’s Office itself “will say that it was investigated and the case was filed, which not only brings more noise, but is inaccurate, because this does not turn out to be the fact for which it should have been investigated.” “. For Strassera “it is not necessary to be a lawyer to chronologically link the explosion of this cause with the retirement of Carlos Altuve.”
“The Public Prosecutor’s Office itself referred in its accusation that Enrique (Petrullo) committed the crime that he is accused of associating with these two officials but in relation to Altuve no type of measure was adopted, even in one of the images that were projected, it was merited in an incriminating way that Enrique had supposedly eliminated the content of the chats held with Altuve and Ordoqui, this is striking because the same Public Prosecutor’s Office proposes it to Altuve as part of a maneuver but he was not investigated,” he complained. the private defender.
In another passage of his plea, but always on the same topic, he pointed out that he found “with a deliberate blindness in relation to the figure of Altuve that is really serious and breaks with the principle of objectivity that should characterize the Public Prosecutor’s Office, an objectivity that has been severed for a long time”.
“This does nothing more than show the selectivity of the Public Prosecutor’s Office when it comes to directing its investigations, when it comes to taking public action, in this trial life imprisonment is requested for certain people, without even briefly describing what the participation is that they had in a homicide; but for an official that the Public Ministry itself mentions in its accusation, no criteria are adopted. These are the things that show, in my opinion, the repugnant use of the death of a person to promote a cause that is based on dimes and bickering”, concluded the private lawyer.
In his plea on Wednesday In the past, former judge Melazo also pointed to the figure of former magistrate Altuve and pointed out that “being a Cassation prosecutor he sold a house belonging to his family to the Attorney General.”
Melazo himself, the former senior commissioner, is noted on the list of accused Gustavo Bursztyn (until his capture he served in the Patrol Command); the official Gustavo Andres Gregorio Mena and the first lieutenant Mark Chiusaroli (staff from the Second Police Station); Adrian “Quichua” Manes (arrested for murder but now under house arrest); Carlos Bertoni; Carlos “Macha” Barroso Luna; Hector “Pepe” Vega, Martin Fernandez Y Enrique Edgardo “Quique” Petrullo.
The judges granted the request of Manes’s defense and granted house arrest since the prosecutors gave up accusing him in the case of possession of drugs for sale because they understood that the amount seized was not enough to prove the sale. According to the expertise “all the drugs were only eight threshold doses.” Threshold dose is an “exposure level below which harmful or harmful effects of a substance are not observed in a population”, ie a substance that produces no effects. The judges santiago paolini Y Andres Vitali they granted house arrest, but the judge Silvia Hoerr He opposed.
Defenses are in the hands of lawyers Bruno Strasera, christian roman, Juan Pesquera, Marcelo Pena, Magali Fromet, Adrian Mazzocchini Y Laura Corporal together with the official defenders Victoria Palomino, Mariela Porcel de Peralta Y Ana Julia Cova.
It should be remembered that for this fact three defendants accepted their responsibility and signed an abbreviated trial in which they recognized their participation in the case that is currently under debate. It is not ruled out that one of them will be investigated again as a participant in the homicide.
While there are other people processed who are awaiting the oral trial for the crime of Juan Farías, a new debate that at the moment does not have a date for completion.
