Friday, May 29th 2026 - 07:51 UTC
Following the Cassation ruling, all that remains for Cristina Kirchner and her children is to file a direct complaint before the Supreme Court
The Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber of Argentina on Thursday rejected the extraordinary appeals filed by former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, her children Máximo and Florencia, and businessman Lázaro Báez against the confiscation of 111 assets ordered as part of the Vialidad case. The decision, adopted by the court's Chamber IV, virtually closes the path to the country's highest tribunal and clears the execution of the asset-related measures associated with the conviction for fraudulent administration imposed on the former president in December 2022 and confirmed by the Supreme Court in June 2025.
The confiscation, amounting to 684.99 billion pesos —around USD 480 million at the current exchange rate— covers properties attributed to Fernández, her children, and Báez, the former owner of the construction group Austral Construcciones. Among the assets belonging to Máximo and Florencia Kirchner are nineteen properties received through inheritance or transfer, including ten apartments on Mitre Street 535 in Río Gallegos and five lots of the Los Sauces hotel complex in Lago Argentino, both in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz. The six-year prison sentence Fernández is currently serving under house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet is linked to irregularities in the awarding of national road public works in Santa Cruz during the Kirchner governments.
