Cristina Fernández, sentenced to 6 years in jail in a corruption trial

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

In addition, the courtroom sentences the previous president to perpetual disqualification from holding public workplace.

The vice chairman of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, has been sentenced this Tuesday to six years in jail in a trial for irregularities within the concession of highway works throughout the Kirchner governments (2003-2015).

When passing sentence in a trial that had begun in May 2019, the Federal Oral Court 2 of Buenos Aires additionally sentenced the previous president to perpetual disqualification from holding public workplace.