Buenos Aires, January 9 (NA) -- The Federal Chamber in Economic Penal Affairs rejected this Friday the appeal of Luciano Nicolás Pantano and Ana Lucía Conte, who are accused of being the alleged frontmen for the AFA's treasurer, Pablo Toviggino, and who appear as the owners of the mansion in Pilar. In this way, it approved the summer judicial recess to continue the criminal investigation against them. The decision was made by the Chamber of Recess, composed of judges Carolina Robiglio and Leopoldo Bruglia, who concluded that the challenged resolution is not appealable and does not cause irreparable harm to the parties, as learned by the Argentine News Agency from judicial sources. The appeal arose after the first-instance penal and economic court, led by Marcelo Aguinsky, authorized the recess to advance with urgent investigative measures, considering that it would maintain jurisdictional activity throughout the break. The defense appealed this measure, arguing that it was not a case provided for by current regulations. The appellate judges recalled that the regulation establishes that the authorization of the recess is, in principle, not a reviewable resolution, unless it generates a harm of impossible subsequent repair, an aspect that, in their opinion, was not proven. The judges Robiglio and Bruglia also emphasized that Aguinsky, in his role as director of the process, is empowered to order the continuation of the investigation during the judicial break, and that the regulations do not prohibit the carrying out of instructional acts on non-working days. In this context, the appellate judges pointed out that the authorization of the recess does not affect the parties' rights, but rather allows them to be aware of the continuation of the investigation and to properly exercise their defense in court.
