(Reuters) – An Argentine appeals court confirmed a lower court decision and upheld the order to confiscate assets of former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner as part of a corruption conviction for which she is serving a six-year sentence, local newspaper La Nación reported this Friday.
A court had ordered Kirchner and others convicted in the case to pay about $500 million in damages, a decision questioned by Kirchner’s lawyers.
Last June, Argentina’s Supreme Court banned the former president from holding public office, and upheld her 2022 prison sentence for a fraud scheme involving the steering of public road works projects in Patagonia to a close ally while she was president.
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Kirchner is serving his sentence under house arrest, in his apartment in Buenos Aires, from where he continues to lead his Peronist Justicialist party.
Kirchner transferred several properties to his children in an advance on his inheritance, according to La Nación. Among them are hotels and apartments in southern Argentina.
