The First Court of the Federal Criminal Appeals Court has set a new date to analyze whether the owners of Clarín, Ernestina Herrera de Noble and Héctor Magnetto have to be questioned as suspects along with La Nación owner Bartolomé Luis Mitre in the case that investigates the irregular sale of Papel Prensa, the country’s largest newsprint manufacturer, during the last dictatorship.
Judges Eduardo Farah, Eduardo Freiler and Jorge Ballestero also decided to dismiss the request filed by the Human Rights Secretariat to remove controversial prosecutor Germán Moldes from the criminal probe. The hearing was first scheduled for May 21st and has now been moved for June 23rd.
The judges will have to decide if they accept to question Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Héctor Magnetto and Bartolomé Luis Mitre, as was requested by federal prosecutor Leonel Gómez Barbella. The prosecutor’s request was rejected by Federal Judge Julián Ercolini, who has had the investigation in his hands since 2011.
For Barbella, the acquisition was made through the intimidation of Gravier Group members, the previous owners of the company.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald