Former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, her children and construction businessman Lázaro Báez — accused by prosecutors of acting as a front man for the Kirchner family — will have to repay AR$685 billion (US$480 million at the official exchange rate) in the corruption case known as the Vialidad case, for which the Peronist leader is currently serving house arrest.
On Thursday, a federal cassation court rejected appeals filed by the Kirchner family and Báez, upholding an earlier ruling ordering the seizure of 111 assets belonging to them, equivalent to the amount the judiciary says they obtained through fraudulent operations.
The decision is part of the fraud case for which Kirchner has been serving a six-year sentence under house arrest since June 2025, along with a lifetime ban from holding public office.
Báez, a former associate of the ex-president, is serving a 15-year prison sentence under a unified conviction combining the Vialidad case and a separate money laundering case.
Last year, Kirchner was convicted of directing 51 federally funded public works contracts in Santa Cruz province to companies owned by Báez, in what the Argentine judiciary determined was a fraudulent scheme.
