Former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo said that “there are judges and prosecutors working for political parties” and called for a “cleanse” of the Judiciary.
“Not all the Judiciary is corrupt. The most affected is the Judiciary investigating power, the federal criminal justice, and then there are pockets,” Moreno Ocampo said in an interview with Rivadavia radio.
The former prosecutor dismissed the idea by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of a “Judicial Party,” but he pointed out that “there are judges and prosecutors working for political parties” and he said that it has been going on for years.
Moreno Ocampo said that ex president Carlos Menem’s administration “captured” the Judicial Branch and that former president Néstor Kirchner began to change that but that the process was interrupted when former Justice Minister Gustavo Béliz resigned. “Those judges that Menem appointed are not judges. There were many who played politics for the president,” he said.
“We need to support the good (judges and prosecutors) and purge (the Judiciary) of the bad ones. It is easy, the information is there,” Moreno Ocampo added. He insisted on the importance of “making a very serious change, a deep one, so that judges are not captured by political power or corruption,” he stressed.
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