Overview
- The Federal Court of Cassation left firm the procesamiento of Julio De Vido for alleged illicit enrichment covering 2003–2017, a decision that clears the way for the case to go to an oral and public trial, the judges ruled on Friday.
- The confirmed procesamiento names De Vido’s wife Alessandra Minnicelli and two alleged front people, Juan Manuel Sebastián Pérez and Susy Inés Bello Knoll, as co‑accused in the same alleged scheme of unexplained asset growth.
- Procurator-General Eduardo Casal filed a formal brief with the Supreme Court asking it to annul De Vido’s September 2023 acquittal in the Antonini valise case on the grounds that judges evaluated indicia in isolation instead of assessing them together as required by sane, rational proof standards.
- The valise episode involved about US$790,550 found in Guido Antonini Wilson’s luggage after a 2007 ENARSA-linked flight and previously led to convictions for Claudio Uberti while De Vido was acquitted; Casal argues phone records, travel details and witness statements were not weighed as a whole.
- If the Supreme Court follows Casal’s view it could send the matter back to the Cassation court for a fuller analysis or reopen that segment for trial, and De Vido would face further public proceedings while he remains in house arrest and under other ongoing corruption trials.