Buenos Aires, February 14 (NA) — Former federal judge of Rosario, Marcelo Martín Bailaque, has been triple accused in cases for alleged corruption crimes, and the prosecutor's office stated that it will request a 10-year prison sentence. As learned by the Argentine News Agency (NA) and as indicated on Fiscales.gob, the representatives of the prosecutor's office warned that the facts attributed to him show a plot of 'structural corruption within the Judicial Power'. According to the accusation, the former magistrate is attributed maneuvers that include malfeasance, abuse of authority, failure to fulfill duties of a public official, illegal trespassing, ideological falsification of a public document, extortion, receipt of bribes and money laundering. The accusation holds that the facts achieved a scheme of improper use of the judicial function to favor private interests and obtain economic benefits, which the researchers described as a corrupt case from its foundations within the Judicial Power. In the same file, a notary public was also accused as a presumed intermediary in extortionate schemes, and the former judge's wife was accused for operations linked to alleged money laundering. The accusations were raised by federal prosecutors with the intervention of areas specializing in economic and narco-criminality, and now the court must decide if the case proceeds to oral trial. The former magistrate remains under house arrest while the judicial process continues. The lawyers specified that the accusations correspond to different facts that are linked to each other, so a single oral trial is not ruled out, and the request for 10 years in prison was estimated for the most serious stage, and in other files, effective sentences, disqualification from holding public office and fines are also expected. One of the files refers to narco-criminality cases in Rosario; it is being investigated if the magistrate favored private interests through resolutions that could be considered irregular.
