All Article Properties:
{
"access_control": false,
"status": "publish",
"objectType": "Article",
"id": "1489864",
"signature": "Article:1489864",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-12-07-argentina-vp-kirchner-gets-six-years-in-jail-for-fraud/",
"shorturl": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/article/1489864",
"slug": "argentina-vp-kirchner-gets-six-years-in-jail-for-fraud",
"contentType": {
"id": "1",
"name": "Article",
"slug": "article"
},
"views": 0,
"comments": 0,
"preview_limit": null,
"excludedFromGoogleSearchEngine": 0,
"title": "Argentina’s vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner gets six years in jail for fraud",
"firstPublished": "2022-12-07 12:38:36",
"lastUpdate": "2022-12-07 12:38:36",
"categories": [
{
"id": "387188",
"name": "Maverick News",
"signature": "Category:387188",
"slug": "maverick-news",
"typeId": {
"typeId": "1",
"name": "Daily Maverick",
"slug": "",
"includeInIssue": "0",
"shortened_domain": "",
"stylesheetClass": "",
"domain": "staging.dailymaverick.co.za",
"articleUrlPrefix": "",
"access_groups": "[]",
"locale": "",
"preview_limit": null
},
"parentId": null,
"parent": [],
"image": "",
"cover": "",
"logo": "",
"paid": "0",
"objectType": "Category",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/category/maverick-news/",
"cssCode": "",
"template": "default",
"tagline": "",
"link_param": null,
"description": "",
"metaDescription": "",
"order": "0",
"pageId": null,
"articlesCount": null,
"allowComments": "1",
"accessType": "freecount",
"status": "1",
"children": [],
"cached": true
}
],
"content_length": 3853,
"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argentinian Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was found guilty of fraud charges and sentenced to six years in prison by a federal court on Tuesday in a landmark case that’s likely to intensify political battles in the South American nation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Fernández de Kirchner won’t need to serve the term for the foreseeable future given her immunity as vice-president and head of the senate, the court decision comes less than 11 months before presidential elections, with her having hinted at a possible run. The Buenos Aires-based court also banned her from holding political office in the future.</span>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more: “</span></i><a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-04/argentina-s-kirchner-stokes-speculation-on-presidential-run\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argentina’s Kirchner Stokes Speculation On Presidential Run</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span></i>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kirchner (69) has the option of appealing against the decision to the supreme court, dragging out the process further. To strip Kirchner of her current senatorial immunity, two-thirds of legislators in the upper chamber of congress would have to vote to remove it, which isn’t expected to happen given the government’s hold on the chamber. </span>\r\n<h4>‘Illicit association’</h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kirchner, one of Argentina’s most powerful and polarising figures, was accused of graft and of allegedly leading an “illicit association” together with a construction magnate in the years she was president between 2007 and 2015, with prosecutors asking for a 12-year prison sentence. In their ruling, judges absolved her of the illicit association charge. </span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1489871\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"378\" /> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristina Fernández de Kirchner </span>leaves her home to greet hundreds of supporters in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires on 30 August 2022. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni)</p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1489870\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"385\" /> Thousands of supporters of <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristina Fernández de Kirchner</span> demonstrate at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires on 2 September 2022. On the night of 1 September, the Argentinian Federal Police arrested an armed man metres from the vice-president at the doors of her apartment in the capital's Recoleta neighbourhood. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vice-president repeatedly denied wrongdoing and has denounced the case as a political manoeuvre by the opposition and members of the judiciary to oust her from power, saying after Tuesday’s ruling that the decision was taken by a “judicial mafia”.</span>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<strong>Visit <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=in_article_link&utm_campaign=homepage\"><em>Daily Maverick's</em> home page</a> for more news, analysis and investigations</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If Kirchner appeals before the supreme court, she may still be a candidate in the next elections for the position she wishes, since the sentence is only final when all judicial review processes have been exhausted,” said Mariano Machado, principal Americas analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, a risk intelligence company. “That would happen when the Supreme Court of Justice rejects Kirchner’s last appeal, which could take years.”</span>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read in </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: “</span></i><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-09-02-argentinas-vp-kirchner-unharmed-in-point-blank-attempted-shooting/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argentina’s VP Kirchner unharmed in point-blank attempted shooting</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span></i>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sentencing is poised to increase political tensions in a deeply divided country and is likely to galvanise the fragmented ruling coalition ahead of next year’s elections. President Alberto Fernández, who was handpicked by Kirchner to lead the coalition despite having less political clout, sided with his vice-president, calling the probe a “political” investigation. </span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1489873\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/10588238-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"414\" /> Former president of Argentina <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristina Fernández de Kirchner </span>speaks at a rally held by President <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fernández </span>in Buenos Aires on 10 December 2021. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social and union groups linked to the ruling coalition also protested across downtown Buenos Aires on Tuesday before the court’s decision.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“There is going to be fallout, and there is going to be a deepening of divisions between the various factions of the government’s ruling coalition,” said Manuel Balan, an associate professor of political science at McGill University, who specialises in Argentina and political corruption. </span><b>DM</b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">© 2022 Bloomberg L.P.</span>",
"teaser": "Argentina’s vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner gets six years in jail for fraud",
"externalUrl": "",
"sponsor": null,
"authors": [
{
"id": "348571",
"name": "Scott Squires",
"image": "",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/author/scott-squires/",
"editorialName": "scott-squires",
"department": "",
"name_latin": ""
}
],
"description": "",
"keywords": [
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "10548",
"name": "Supreme court",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/supreme-court/",
"slug": "supreme-court",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "Supreme court",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "11119",
"name": "Argentina",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/argentina/",
"slug": "argentina",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "Argentina",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "69012",
"name": "Cristina Fernández de Kirchner",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/cristina-fernandez-de-kirchner/",
"slug": "cristina-fernandez-de-kirchner",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "Cristina Fernández de Kirchner",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "74973",
"name": "presidential elections",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/presidential-elections/",
"slug": "presidential-elections",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "presidential elections",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "391970",
"name": "Scott Squires",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/scott-squires/",
"slug": "scott-squires",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "Scott Squires",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "391971",
"name": "President Alberto Fernández",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/president-alberto-fernandez/",
"slug": "president-alberto-fernandez",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "President Alberto Fernández",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "391972",
"name": "illicit association",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/illicit-association/",
"slug": "illicit-association",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "illicit association",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "391973",
"name": "senatorial immunity",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/senatorial-immunity/",
"slug": "senatorial-immunity",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "senatorial immunity",
"translations": null
}
},
{
"type": "Keyword",
"data": {
"keywordId": "391974",
"name": "judicial mafia",
"url": "https://staging.dailymaverick.co.za/keyword/judicial-mafia/",
"slug": "judicial-mafia",
"description": "",
"articlesCount": 0,
"replacedWith": null,
"display_name": "judicial mafia",
"translations": null
}
}
],
"short_summary": null,
"source": null,
"related": [],
"options": [],
"attachments": [
{
"id": "55467",
"name": "epa09635253 The former president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, speaks during a rally held by the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10 December 2021. At the end of two years of his mandate, the Argentine president, Alberto Fernandez, held a rally in Buenos Aires, while the Government tries to show signs of recovery after almost four years of economic recession, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. EPA-EFE/Juan Ignacio Roncoroni",
"description": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argentinian Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was found guilty of fraud charges and sentenced to six years in prison by a federal court on Tuesday in a landmark case that’s likely to intensify political battles in the South American nation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Fernández de Kirchner won’t need to serve the term for the foreseeable future given her immunity as vice-president and head of the senate, the court decision comes less than 11 months before presidential elections, with her having hinted at a possible run. The Buenos Aires-based court also banned her from holding political office in the future.</span>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more: “</span></i><a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-04/argentina-s-kirchner-stokes-speculation-on-presidential-run\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argentina’s Kirchner Stokes Speculation On Presidential Run</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span></i>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kirchner (69) has the option of appealing against the decision to the supreme court, dragging out the process further. To strip Kirchner of her current senatorial immunity, two-thirds of legislators in the upper chamber of congress would have to vote to remove it, which isn’t expected to happen given the government’s hold on the chamber. </span>\r\n<h4>‘Illicit association’</h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kirchner, one of Argentina’s most powerful and polarising figures, was accused of graft and of allegedly leading an “illicit association” together with a construction magnate in the years she was president between 2007 and 2015, with prosecutors asking for a 12-year prison sentence. In their ruling, judges absolved her of the illicit association charge. </span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1489871\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1489871\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"378\" /> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristina Fernández de Kirchner </span>leaves her home to greet hundreds of supporters in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires on 30 August 2022. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1489870\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1489870\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"385\" /> Thousands of supporters of <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristina Fernández de Kirchner</span> demonstrate at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires on 2 September 2022. On the night of 1 September, the Argentinian Federal Police arrested an armed man metres from the vice-president at the doors of her apartment in the capital's Recoleta neighbourhood. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni)[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vice-president repeatedly denied wrongdoing and has denounced the case as a political manoeuvre by the opposition and members of the judiciary to oust her from power, saying after Tuesday’s ruling that the decision was taken by a “judicial mafia”.</span>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<strong>Visit <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=in_article_link&utm_campaign=homepage\"><em>Daily Maverick's</em> home page</a> for more news, analysis and investigations</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If Kirchner appeals before the supreme court, she may still be a candidate in the next elections for the position she wishes, since the sentence is only final when all judicial review processes have been exhausted,” said Mariano Machado, principal Americas analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, a risk intelligence company. “That would happen when the Supreme Court of Justice rejects Kirchner’s last appeal, which could take years.”</span>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read in </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: “</span></i><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-09-02-argentinas-vp-kirchner-unharmed-in-point-blank-attempted-shooting/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argentina’s VP Kirchner unharmed in point-blank attempted shooting</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span></i>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sentencing is poised to increase political tensions in a deeply divided country and is likely to galvanise the fragmented ruling coalition ahead of next year’s elections. President Alberto Fernández, who was handpicked by Kirchner to lead the coalition despite having less political clout, sided with his vice-president, calling the probe a “political” investigation. </span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1489873\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1489873\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/10588238-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"414\" /> Former president of Argentina <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristina Fernández de Kirchner </span>speaks at a rally held by President <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fernández </span>in Buenos Aires on 10 December 2021. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni)[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social and union groups linked to the ruling coalition also protested across downtown Buenos Aires on Tuesday before the court’s decision.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“There is going to be fallout, and there is going to be a deepening of divisions between the various factions of the government’s ruling coalition,” said Manuel Balan, an associate professor of political science at McGill University, who specialises in Argentina and political corruption. </span><b>DM</b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">© 2022 Bloomberg L.P.</span>",
"focal": "50% 50%",
"width": 0,
"height": 0,
"url": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez3.jpg",
"transforms": [
{
"x": "200",
"y": "100",
"url": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/GK35UFSHqrJZwJu-I75DA9-az-U=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez3.jpg"
},
{
"x": "450",
"y": "0",
"url": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/LQ1D-yhD_aGYb9xaskLaIbH-ZXQ=/450x0/smart/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez3.jpg"
},
{
"x": "800",
"y": "0",
"url": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/NTGBOKnpOpybwYpGqbBIuh-U0Ms=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez3.jpg"
},
{
"x": "1200",
"y": "0",
"url": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/UtfqNR-Iokdsn1_jSx6xQxOIQIE=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez3.jpg"
},
{
"x": "1600",
"y": "0",
"url": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/vTnBSyb7HSwA0CDPR4C5Yu3cL3Q=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez3.jpg"
}
],
"url_thumbnail": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/GK35UFSHqrJZwJu-I75DA9-az-U=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez3.jpg",
"url_medium": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/LQ1D-yhD_aGYb9xaskLaIbH-ZXQ=/450x0/smart/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez3.jpg",
"url_large": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/NTGBOKnpOpybwYpGqbBIuh-U0Ms=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez3.jpg",
"url_xl": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/UtfqNR-Iokdsn1_jSx6xQxOIQIE=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez3.jpg",
"url_xxl": "https://dmcdn.whitebeard.net/i/vTnBSyb7HSwA0CDPR4C5Yu3cL3Q=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Argentina-Cristina-Fernandez3.jpg",
"type": "image"
}
],
"summary": "The polarising politician – who has hinted at a run for president in under 11 months – blames a ‘judicial mafia’ for the ruling, which is poised to increase political tensions in a deeply divided country.",
"template_type": null,
"dm_custom_section_label": null,
"elements": [],
"seo": {
"search_title": "Argentina’s vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner gets six years in jail for fraud",
"search_description": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argentinian Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was found guilty of fraud charges and sentenced to six years in prison by a federal court on Tuesday in a land",
"social_title": "Argentina’s vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner gets six years in jail for fraud",
"social_description": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argentinian Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was found guilty of fraud charges and sentenced to six years in prison by a federal court on Tuesday in a land",
"social_image": ""
},
"cached": true,
"access_allowed": true
} 
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner leaves her home to greet hundreds of supporters in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires on 30 August 2022. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni)
Thousands of supporters of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner demonstrate at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires on 2 September 2022. On the night of 1 September, the Argentinian Federal Police arrested an armed man metres from the vice-president at the doors of her apartment in the capital's Recoleta neighbourhood. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni)
Former president of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner speaks at a rally held by President Fernández in Buenos Aires on 10 December 2021. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni)