News of sentence

Former vice-president Amado Boudou granted parole

23-07-2021 15:33 Argentina’s former vice-president, jailed for crimes related to the irregular acquisition of a major money-printing firm, granted parole after serving two-thirds of his 70-month prison sentence.

EUROPE

Defiant Sarkozy on offensive after graft conviction

03-03-2021 10:54 Former France president Nicolas Sarkozy launches offensive to clear his name after being handed a three-year sentence for corruption, lambasting the verdict and mulling a petition to Europe's top rights court.

THE WEEK

There's no jab against ego tripping

27-02-2021 07:29 Cutting corners, contacting cronies for dodgy favours and jumping lines is almost a national sport in Argentina.

by Martín Gambarotta

JAILED SOCIAL LEADER

Supreme Court upholds two-year prison sentence against Milagro Sala

13-02-2021 09:48 Jailed Tupac Amaru social activist Milagro Sala, considered a ‘political prisoner’ by most Kirchnerite figures, condemns the decision.

COURTS

Court confirms De Vido’s sentence for role in Once rail crash

23-12-2020 19:15 Fifty-one people, among them a pregnant woman, were killed and nearly 800 injured when a passenger train plummeted into the Once railway terminal during peak hour in Buenos Aires’ Balvanera neighbourhood on February 22, 2012.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Etchecolatz handed eighth life sentence for dictatorship-era crimes

05-12-2020 09:36 Former deputy Buenos Aires provincial police chief sentenced to another life term in jail; Nine other defendants also received life sentences.

CORRUPTION & THE COURTS

Supreme Court upholds ex-VP Boudou’s graft conviction

05-12-2020 09:32 Former vice-president’s conviction for irregularities in sale of Ciccone money-printing firm upheld.

CORRUPTION & THE COURTS

Ex-VP Boudou, jailed for corruption offences, granted house arrest

07-04-2020 18:44 Court granted house arrest to Boudou, who was vice-president during the second presidential term of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from 2011 to 2015.

JAILED SOCIAL LEADER

UCR's Cornejo slams 'irresponsible' Fernández over Milagro Sala comments

08-11-2019 17:24 President-elect accused of "anti-republican behaviour" after saying jailed Túpac Amaru leader "does not deserve to be detained." Sala, meanwhile, says she wants to run for governorship of Jujuy Province.

CORRUPTION & THE COURTS

Jailed ex-VP Amado Boudou gets more than two months shaved off sentence

30-10-2019 14:05 In majority ruling, judges agree time served under pre-trial arrest in a related case should be counted towards near- six-year sentence handed down in Ciccone Calcographic case.

CÓRDOBA JURY TRIAL

Woman in Córdoba gets 13 years in jail for cutting off lover's penis

26-09-2019 09:57 Brenda Barattini, the woman who used a pair of pruning shears to cut off her lover's genitals, sentenced to 13 years in prison for attempted aggravated homicide.

CORRUPTION & THE COURTS

Boudou acquitted and convicted in unified trial over car purchases

29-08-2019 17:15 Former vice-president handed three-year suspended sentence for supplying false data for purchase of car, but is cleared of irregularities in the buying of 19 high-end vehicles dating back to when he led Economy Ministry.