June 10 (UPI) -- Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner must serve her six-year prison sentence for a corruption conviction, the nation's Supreme Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday.
The three-judge court unanimously upheld Kirchner's 2022 corruption conviction and ruled she is banned from holding public office.
The conviction arises from how awards for 51 public works projects were issued in what became the "Vialidad" trial.
Kirchner, 72, received due process, and the "rulings issued by the lower courts were based on extensive evidence assessed in accordance with the rules of sound judgment and the penal code enacted by Congress," the judges wrote in Tuesday's verdict.
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