A federal court has ordered the preventive seizure of the apartment where former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is serving her house arrest sentence in connection with the “Vialidad” corruption case over public works contracts.
The seizure and other precautionary measures ordered by the court cover more than 100 properties, including 21 belonging to Kirchner and her children, national deputy Máximo Kirchner and Florencia Kirchner.
The move does not imply the former president needs to move out, although the future of the property is unclear.
Most of the remaining properties belong to construction businessman Lázaro Báez, a former associate of the ex-president who is serving a 15-year prison sentence under a unified conviction covering 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.
