The judge of La Rioja Norma Abate de Mazzucchelliuntil this Thursday president of the Fourth Chamber of Civil, Commercial and Mines of that province, resigned after being denounced by a merchant for asking for $8 million to expedite an succession.
Meanwhile, the Association of Women Judges of Argentinaof which she was vice president, reported that its Board of Directors “has decided, unanimously, preventively suspend her from her position and as a partner of the entity, while the internal disciplinary summary is being processed”.
Even the governor himself Ricardo Quintela stated in his social network account X that “the events that occurred and were publicly reported are unacceptable and from one absolute gravity“and warned that “Judge Abate de Mazzuchelli, accused of asking for bribes to resolve different cases, is attacking the trust of the Riojan people in Justice.”
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“I requested the removal of his position and the investigation of this situation”revealed the president, while recalling his impulse to “limit of the periodicity of the judges to avoid, among other things, vices in the correct actions that Justice should have.” In this regard, he pointed out that the conventional constituents “are dealing with this issue for the Constitutional reform“.
The scandal came to light through a report by Telenoche Investigatesin which Manuela Saavedra denounced Mazzucchelli for ask him for a large sum of money to release a payment from his uncle’s inheritancewho died four years ago.
According to the merchant, it all started when the lawyer told her that she knew who her relative was. “She told me that since I knew him he was going to make an exception for me and that he was going to help me get him out quickly,” she recalled and added: “At one point he told me that the judge’s salary was very little and that is why he was not interested in the causes.”
One day, the magistrate approached the bookstore where she worked, about which the woman indicated: “She pulled me aside and told me that the next day I could have the issue resolved, but that that It had a cost because it was a lot of work.“.
In this context, he explained that he approached his office where, “speaking of the withdrawal of funds, At one point in the conversation she takes a notebook and writes down a number, which was an eight.“, in reference to the million-dollar sum he was asking for. However, given his inability to pay it, he crossed it out “and wrote a five below,” which was also rejected by the woman.
His statements were accompanied by a video obtained from a hidden camera, in which the magistrate warned him: “Who did everything to you? Who managed everything for you? It wasn’t the lawyers here. But if you don’t want to or can’t, don’t do it. This is not done out of obligation, it is done out of recognition“.
“It’s simple, Manuela. Nobody here is going to put a gun to your chest. So, how much do you think you can do?”, he concluded. Faced with this scenario, Saavedra denounced the judge for the alleged crime of concussion (embezzlement made by a public official for his own benefit), while the NGO Poder Ciencia enabled the number 51147200 to obtain new complaints.
