• Argentina Alberto Fernández frees Mauricio Macri from intelligence secrecy to testify in the cause of espionage to relatives of a sunken submarine

Former Argentine President

Mauricio Macri

was prosecuted this Wednesday in the investigation for alleged espionage of a group of relatives of the sailors killed in the sinking of the

submarine ARA San Juan, which

occurred in 2017.

Martín Bava,

the substitute judge who understands the case, It imposed an embargo of one hundred million pesos (one million dollars at the official exchange rate) and prohibited the former head of state from leaving the country.

"The illegal practices that are aired in this resolution take

us back to the darkest times of our country,"

wrote Bava in his resolution, in which he accuses Macri of "institutionally restoring a series of illegal practices that were believed to have been eradicated, very similar to those of that time ", in reference to the military dictatorship that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983.

Bava had already prosecuted the top intelligence services during Macri's presidency (2015-2019), whom he accuses of

having "made possible" the tasks of "illegal intelligence".

The judge also prohibited Macri from being absent from his home for more than ten days without prior notice.



In the Argentine legal system, the prosecution is the

step prior to the oral trial

and implies that there is sufficient evidence to advance the case in court.


The submarine ARA San Juan

sank on November 15, 2017

and was found 900 meters deep and 500 kilometers from the coast, a year later.

Its 44 crew members died.


The Argentine Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) denounced in September 2020 that the Macri government carried out illegal espionage on relatives of the submarine's crew.

That complaint led to the judicial case in which the prosecution of Macri was determined.

The former Argentine president received the news in Chile, where he was meeting with President

Sebastián Piñera.

Members of his political force and the opposition coalition Together for Change rejected the actions of Judge Bava.

"It is an invented cause

and the prosecution was already written," said members of Macri's environment, according to the Argentine press.

According to "La Nación", Bava stated in its resolution "that 'it is accredited' that 'at least between December 2017 and December 2018', Macri, as president, 'made it possible to carry out the illegal tasks',' stored part of that produced 'and' used that illegal intelligence information 'made by the Mar del Plata AFI to

know in advance the claims that it was going to receive from the relatives of the victims

of the sinking of the submarine. "



"The judge does not have any document or direct testimony that proves by himself that Macri gave the order to do intelligence on his alleged victims, but according to the judge, the investigation showed that

only he could have ordered such a thing," he

added. Nation".



The prosecution of Macri, which a large part of the opposition believes is due to a partial judge and in tune with the ruling Peronism, came in the same week that it was learned that Vice President

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

avoided going to an oral trial in a case in which she was accused of fraud to the State.

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