The prosecutor highlighted that 'we believe that this case (in fact, a set of cases) demands a special need for explanations because, in our view, it is the most extensive investigation of corruption facts in the history of Argentine justice and comparable to only a few worldwide'. In the first part of the report, the prosecutor mentioned the characteristics of the investigation that will go to oral trial with a total of 87 accused, including the former president, the former Minister of Federal Planning Julio De Vido, the former Secretary of Public Works José López, and the former official of that ministry Roberto Baratta. Also going to trial are the former Secretaries of Transport Ricardo Jaime and Juan Pablo Schiavi, among other former officials. A total of 540 facts will be judged, and 65 businessmen and two drivers will also be brought to the stand, one of them being the taxi driver who wrote the notebooks, Oscar Centeno, a collaborating accused in the case processed as a supposed member of a criminal organization. Among the businessmen going to trial are the former president Mauricio Macri's cousin, Angelo Calcaterra, Aldo Roggio, Carlos Wagner, Gerardo Ferreyra, Héctor Sánchez Caballero, Armando Loson, Néstor Otero, Alberto Taselli, and Enrique Pescarmona. All will go to trial before the Federal Oral Court 7 'accused of leading, organizing, and integrating a criminal organization - according to each case - that operated within the scope of the National Executive Branch to raise money from construction, energy, and transport companies, in exchange for the awarding of state contracts', the report summarizes. Over the years since 2018, when the first file 9608 was initiated with the delivery of the notebooks to the federal prosecutor's office of Carlos Stornelli at Comodoro PY 2002, 'seizures, general attachments of assets and interventions in companies, confiscation of items (machinery), prohibitions on innovation, on distributing dividends, income tax substitutions, etc.' have been issued. The General Prosecutor Fabiana León, who will lead the prosecution in the Notebooks case starting next Thursday, warned that it is the 'most extensive investigation of corruption facts in the history of Argentine justice'. The Notebooks are 'comparable to only a few worldwide', she added in a report presented by her office with details of the trial that will begin on November 6 against the former President Cristina Kirchner, prosecuted as the supposed head of a criminal organization and passive bribery, that is, the receipt of illegal payments, judicial sources reported. 'Although some measures have been changed for others, these better satisfy the purposes mentioned. Ultimately, not a single centavo affected by these measures for the benefit of the State has been lost or neglected', the prosecutor's office assured. The crimes attributed range from criminal association to bribery, gifts, and concealment, depending on the case. The crime of criminal association provides for up to 10 years in prison and bribery has a maximum of six years. The hearings from November 6 will be virtual by decision of the judges of the Tribunal: Germán Castelli, Enrique Méndez Signori, and Fernando Canero.
