An Argentine appeals court confirmed a lower court decision ordering the confiscation of assets of former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner, as a result of a corruption conviction for which she is serving a six-year sentence.
The news was published, this Friday (24), by the Argentine newspaper La Nación and confirmed by the affiliate of CNN not country, TN.
A court previously ordered Kirchner and others convicted in the case to pay about $500 million in damages.
Kirchner’s lawyers filed a request to have the order vacated.
Last June, Argentina’s Supreme Court banned the former president from holding public office, and upheld her for a fraud scheme involving the steering of public road works projects in Patagonia to a close ally while she was president.
Kirchner is serving his sentence in , in his apartment in Buenos Aires, from where he continues to lead his Peronist Justicialista party.
She transferred several into an advance on her inheritance, according to La Nación. Among them are hotels and apartments in southern Argentina.
