Macri is accused of overseeing the search for the families of 44 sailors who were killed in a sinking ship.
Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri has been charged with felony criminal mischief for overseeing the families of 44 pilots who died in 2017. Shipwreck.
The case has a three- to 10-year prison sentence and comes after Macri he called and testified in court in October.
The lawsuit, filed by Judge Martin Bava on Wednesday, ruled that the former president and the current opposition leader were “guilty of misconduct”.
He was also charged with “creating conditions for the collection of personal data, storage and use”, in accordance with a 174-page ruling.
Macri had previously filed a lawsuit in court stating: “I have not spied on anyone, I have never ordered (anyone) in my government to spy on anyone.”
Wednesday, he denied the charges as “political harassment”.
The families of the sailors who died at ARA San Juan have been tracked down, wire-stamped, and photographed in a race to ban any legal implications of a shipwreck.
The ARA San Juan submarine disappeared in November 2017.
It was discovered a year later, at a depth of more than 900 meters (2,950 feet) in the remote South Atlantic, 400 kilometers (248 miles) off the coast of Argentina.
The ship was wrecked as a result of an explosion that appears to have occurred as a result of a particular accident. The authorities decided to refuse to try to relocate it.
“The importance of the information gathered, the purpose, and the order of the documents examined in this case allows us to say that the prohibited information was put together by one person: Mauricio Macri,” Judge Bava wrote in the ruling.
The judge granted bail to Macri for 100 million pesos ($ 990,000). Former President, who was in the office from 2015 to 2019, when he was defeated by Alberto Fernandez, a former left winger, banned from leaving the country.
In the past Macri has asked for the case to be dropped out of court because the court does not have the power to remove the confidential information of the state intelligence in order to give evidence. That request was denied.
He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture, and that his confession had been obtained through torture. The election found the alliance very profitable, while the Fernandez’s Party for Every Alliance he loses his quantity in Congress for the first time in about 40 years.
Earlier, the judge had ordered the secrecy of Gustavo Arribas and Silvia Majdalani. Both told Macri at the time of his mistake.
So far 12 people have been charged in connection with the case.
