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The argentine justice freezes the assets of former president Alberto Fernández

The Argentine Justice froze the assets and lifted the tax and banking secrecy of former President Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) and several of his collaborators, as part of an investigation for alleged corruption around the contracting of state insurance during his Government, judicial sources confirmed on Wednesday.
Federal judge Julián Ercolini, in charge of room 11 of the national court in Federal Criminal and Correctional Affairs, ordered the general inhibition of Fernández’s assets and lifted the tax and banking secrecy on his accounts in the case that investigates whether the president favored, for the contracting of state insurance, the husband of his private secretary.
Ercolini’s measure also covers 32 other people, former officials, companies and cooperatives that are being investigated, who will now not be able to sell or dispose of their assets.
The decision covers the intermediary Héctor Martínez Sosa and his wife María Cantero, Fernández’s secretary, a link that, for the judge, arouses the suspicion that he determined the role of the former president in the intermediation of insurance between the state entities and Nación Seguros.
Fernández is accused of a scandal related to the contracting of insurance by public bodies during his government.
Fernández is being investigated for alleged irregularities around a decree he signed in December 2021, by which he ordered that all public bodies should take out insurance in Nación Seguros, of the state-owned Banco Nación, in which friends of the former president would have benefited as intermediaries charging millionaires of commissions.
Despite not needing managers to take out those insurances, the public agencies used the husband of their secretary and his friend, Martínez Sosa, who, in addition, is listed as the former president’s creditor in his affidavits, as an intermediary.
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Trump urges Putin to reach peace deal

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “reach a deal” to end the war in Ukraine, while also reaffirming his willingness to impose sanctions on Russia.
“I want to see him reach an agreement to prevent Russian, Ukrainian, and other people from dying,” Trump stated during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House.
“I think he will. I don’t want to have to impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil,” the Republican leader added, recalling that he had already taken similar measures against Venezuela by sanctioning buyers of the South American country’s crude oil.
Trump also reiterated his frustration over Ukraine’s resistance to an agreement that would allow the United States to exploit natural resources in the country—a condition he set in negotiations to end the war.
International
Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.
Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.
However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.
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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.
“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.
The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.
His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”
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