The oral trial for Mariano Bruera and other former municipal officials of La Plata prosecuted for various crimes already has a date and will be during the year 2023. The trial of the so-called cause “Bribes in the Procrear plan” It was scheduled for 2019 but was suspended, first due to health problems of one of the lawyers and then due to overlapping trials on the prosecutor’s agenda, but it will take place after the summer 2023 judicial fair, they confirmed. judicial sources to 0221.com.ar.
After several counterpoints, the start of the process was scheduled for August 20 of that year, but it did not start because the lawyer Marcelo Pena suffered a decompensation. On Wednesday, August 28, it was to start but the lawyer was still at rest. As it was expected to last several days and overlapped with other debates and activities that both the defense and the prosecutors had pre-arranged in advance, the trial was suspended.
bruera arriveswill go to trial in freedom. The extraordinary release granted by the Chamber of Appeals and Guarantees of La Plata with the votes of the chamber members was firm Ariel Arguero Y Raul Dalto, who understood that there are no procedural risks of flight or hindrance of evidence. The judges thus allowed the defense proposal at the head of the lawyer Alejandro Montone.
The list of defendants is made up of the businessman Gustavo Roberto Orlandi, Gustavo Petro, Enrique Sette, Robert Moreno Y Christian Ibarra. Sette, former Secretary of Public Management; Moreno, Petro and Bruera are on trial for “illicit association, passive bribery and illegal exactions”all these in real contest.
The case was initiated by the complaint by the lawyer and businessman from La Plata william andreau in 2014. As he assured, the then municipal government officials asked him for $200,000 to rezone a piece of land he owned, to later divide it into lots and sell it to beneficiaries of the Procrear housing plan.
According to the prosecutor’s investigation Jorge Paolini, Andreau’s land was considered an “urban reserve” and, therefore, subdivision on smaller plots was prevented, but the Urban Planning Code (COU) drafted during the administration of former mayor Pablo Bruera contemplated that plots of more than one hectare they could be divided by decree without going through the Deliberative Council and it was within this framework that the businessman received the proposal to allocate his land in exchange for a large sum of money.
Bruera and the rest of the officials are accused of receiving gifts to enable the subdivision that until then was not possible in exchange for video. The trial will begin on February 15. and will be in charge of the Oral Criminal Court II of La Plata. The prosecution is in the hands of the prosecutor Victoria Huergo.
