Overview
- Ernesto Clarens’s lawyer, Hugo Pinto, denied any link with Julio De Vido and rejected 376 phone contacts cited in the case file, claiming the records were misattributed.
- Pinto warned Clarens may withdraw his status as a cooperating witness unless the indictment is corrected to align with the collaboration agreement he signed with prosecutors.
- Tribunal Oral Federal 7 continued preliminary hearings as multiple defenses echoed Cristina Kirchner’s strategy to seek nullity and to question the arrepentido framework and prosecutorial conduct.
- Alejandra Gils Carbó, representing a construction executive from Electroingeniería, pressed to exclude Oscar Centeno’s notebooks as evidence, citing alterations reported in expert reviews.
- Official forensic work attributed authorship of the notebooks to Centeno and found six of eight originals consistent with the copies used to open the case, while separate analyses detected isolated edits that defenses now deploy to challenge their reliability.