Ex-president of Argentina Christina Fernandez is accused of laundering money

The Argentine prosecutor’s office presented the country's ex-president Christine Fernandez de Kirschner an official charge of laundering money. It is reported by Reuters with reference to a certain source in court.

It is claimed that such a decision was made, after the businessman Leonardo Farinya, as part of the transaction with the investigation, testified against Fernandez and her deceased husband and predecessor as President Nestor Kirschner in the case of money laundering and assigning funds allocated for public work.

Also, Hulio de Vido became a defendant in the case, in 2003-2015 - under the Kirshner, and then his wife, who served as Minister of Federal Planning, Infrastructure and State Investments. Earlier, on Tuesday, in the same case, businessman Lasaro BesaPs close to the family of ex-presidents was arrested.

According to Argentinean law, the agency notes, the prosecutor’s office puts forward a formal prosecution against the defendant, and then the court decides whether to declare the name of the accused in the appropriate official report.

The Argentina government of comments in connection with the charge of the ex-president refused.

Meanwhile, on the nearest Wednesday, Fernandez must answer in court questions in another case - on the sale of the country's central bank in its presidency for American dollars at prices below market ones.

On Thursday, Bloomberg said that Argentina’s prosecutor’s office demanded that Maurisio Makri initiate the case against the current president of the country. The Panama archive documents published a few days earlier about Macri's connections with offshore firms. Fernandez was also mentioned in Panama documents.

Nestor Kirschner was the president of the country in 2003-2007, Kristina Fernandez de Kirschner-in 2007-2015. Both belonged to the Hustisialist Party. This is the main power of the peronists - the political heirs of the dictator -populist of the mid -20th century Juan Domingo Peron. Macri, who took a post in December last year, belongs to the Red Profiter Party "Republican Offer".