Buenos Aires, March 17 (NA) – After being labeled a "mafioso" by Cristina Kirchner, who testified this Tuesday in the Cuadernos case, prosecutor Carlos Stornelli responded that the former president's "assessments" against him are nothing more than a "reissue of old arguments" and part of "an operation that failed." In an interview with "Pan y Circo" on Radio Rivadavia, which was accessed by the Argentine News Agency, the judicial official who led the prosecution in the first instance said he would not "respond to that type of accusation," after the former head of state said he had a "criminal handling of the figure of the repentant" to get businessmen to testify against her with false complaints. Immediately after, however, he noted that the accusation against him by Cristina Kirchner "is a reissue of old arguments that were already lost." "In the book 'Sincerely' she already said all these things. When are they going to call Stornelli to testify about any of the atrocities that are proven in the files that are in this same building," questioned the former president. "It is very difficult to believe in the institutions when there are still people like Stornelli inside them," she continued. "The businessmen were detained and extorted to testify against me," declared Cristina Kirchner. She is a person who is defending herself and will do so as she sees fit. In that defense tactic, there are assessments about my person, my work, and about people who have died, and about personal life issues, about my family, which involves minors. This is not new; perhaps people forgot, but it is a reissue of a series of operations that have been done against me throughout all these years. I could not make a prediction. In the middle of the process, there are evidence that are dismissed. It depends on the dynamics that the tribunal gives it," he commented. When giving his statement in the Comodoro Py courthouses on Tuesday morning, Cristina Kirchner described the Cuadernos case investigation as "mafia" and directly pointed to former judge Claudio Bonadio and Stornelli himself. "The Viality case is emblematic in terms of judicial persecution. There is a higher level in terms of ideology. Now we are immersed in the mafia practices of judges and prosecutors," said the former head of state before the TOF 7, made up of Fernando Canero, Enrique Méndez Signori, and Germán Castelli. For the former chief of state, Bonadio and Stornelli "had a criminal handling of the figure of the repentant" and added: "You can't get more mafioso than that." In the same vein, she maintained that "they fabricated evidence to detain only one person" and emphasized that, despite this, Stornelli "continues to be a prosecutor in this building." "I was asking the president of the tribunal if I am going to answer questions. Do you know when I am going to answer questions from this tribunal and any other? He is going to eat all this year."
