Buenos Aires, October 29, 2025 – Total News Agency-TNA– The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation has upheld two convictions against former Secretary of Internal Trade Guillermo Moreno by rejecting the appeals filed by his defense. Judges Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz, and Ricardo Lorenzetti deemed the defense's arguments “inadmissible” and applied article 280 of the Civil and Commercial Procedural Code, definitively closing the legal path. The first case confirmed by the highest court concerns Moreno's violent intrusion into a shareholders' meeting of Papel Prensa, held on August 12, 2010. He entered the venue with boxing gloves and a sparring helmet, making threats that forced the suspension of the vote. For this incident, the Federal Oral Court No. 8 sentenced him in 2022 to two years of suspended prison and six months of disqualification for coercive threats. The second conviction, handed down by the Federal Oral Court No. 7 in 2017, found him guilty of embezzlement and incitement to collective violence for having used public funds to buy party paraphernalia with the slogan “Clarín lies.” With the ratification of the convictions, the former official is absolutely and perpetually disqualified from holding public office and must serve two suspended prison sentences for crimes committed during his tenure at the helm of the Secretariat of Internal Trade. He was later assigned as economic attaché at the Argentine embassy in Italy until 2015. The confirmation of the convictions sets a judicial precedent that reinforces the limits on the discretionary use of public resources and the abuse of power in the exercise of state functions. The decision also affects other convicts in related cases, such as former Central Market executives Fabián Dragone and Guillermo Cosentino.
On that occasion, he received a two-and-a-half-year suspended prison sentence and a perpetual disqualification from holding public office.
