Also, 88-year-old Menem is forever forbidden to hold public office.
In addition, in this case, the former Minister of Economy Domingo Cavallo was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
In 2013, Menem was sentenced to seven years in prison in a case of arms smuggling to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990s. He escaped punishment, as he was a senator. In 2018, the charges were dropped.
In 2018, police searched the home of former Argentine President Cristina Kirchner in Buenos Aires as part of an investigation into a corruption case.