Source: International Business Times
Former Argentine President Cristina Kirchner is due to start serving a six-year sentence AFP A judge on Tuesday agreed to let Argentine ex-president Cristina Kirchner to serve a six-year fraud sentence at home, easing concern among backers keeping a vigil outside her apartment with plans to protest in case she was jailed. The South American country's Supreme Court last week upheld the 72-year-old's fraud conviction as well as a sentence of six years and a lifelong ban on holding public office. This closed off the final avenue for appeal after Kirchner was convicted in 2022 of fraud in the awarding of public works tenders to a business associate during her 2007-2015 presidency.
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