The former governor of Tucumán, José Alperovich was sentenced this Tuesday to 16 years in prison and disqualification from holding public office, after being accused of perpetrating nine acts of sexual abuse against his niece and former advisorbetween 2017 and 2018. At the time of reading the opinion, in which his immediate arrest was ordered, He remained still, with his eyes closed.
Almost unmoved, Alperovich remained crestfallen during the reading of his sentence. and he was only seen breathing deeply when Judge Juan Ramos Padilla read that he would be sentenced for “simple sexual abuse, repeated on three occasions. Two incidents were attempted and six other incidents of sexual violence aggravated by having carnal access via vaginal, anal and oral routes.
The former official had the typical gesture that was seen throughout the trial: a pouting mouth, and a slight muscle movement in his jaw. But he didn’t cry even when the police took him away and his four children, who were waiting a few meters away, hugged him. Some tried to encourage him with words, but Alperovich advanced without paying much attention.
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His wife Beatriz Rojkes and the victim were also monitoring the hearing, both connected through the Zoom platform. Previously, the person convicted of sexual abuse He had decided not to use his last words and preferred to remain silent. He had the obligation to wait for the reading of the verdict in the Court facilities at 1500 Paraguay Street.
While the judge read the ruling, agents from the Federal Penitentiary Service waited in the anteroom, in addition to a police presence that was busier than usual in recent weeks of oral debate. Amid applause and the shout of “rapist” with which those present rebuked him, the former governor left under guard. and went to a prison unit.
José Alperovich’s hug with his children after being convicted
He was transferred to Ezeiza, where he will spend the nightguarded by two trucks from the Federal Penitentiary Service and four motorcycles, he explained. TN. At the prison hospital of the penal unit they will undergo the necessary check-ups to see how the 69-year-old former senator’s health is.
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Alperovich was sentenced to 16 years in prison
Alperovich, who was governor of Tucumán for three terms, was transferred to a federal prison, by decision of the magistrate. Until now, he had remained free after being reported in November 2019 and only had a ban on leaving the country.. “It was a very important message against impunity,” said the spokesperson for the complainant, Milagro Mariona, after learning of the ruling.
According to the complaint, the first events for which he was incriminated occurred in Buenos Aires at the end of 2017, shortly after the victim began working as an advisor to the former governor of Tucumán, who at that time was a senator and traveled regularly with his niece to Buenos Aires territory. Of the acts of sexual abuse, two took place in the apartment that Alperovich owns in Puerto Madero, but the most serious cases occurred in March 2018 in the province of Tucumán.
In his argument, The defense tried to disqualify the victim and even argued that the “same phrases” with which the actor Juan Darthés was incriminated were used in the accusation., who was recently convicted in Brazil. The words to which the defense lawyer alluded are those that Alperovich allegedly said to his niece in one of the eight events for which she came to trial. “Look how you make me feel,” was the phrase with which the lawyer compared the two cases. “It is striking that Alperovich and Darthés “they will use the same phrase” towards the victims, “when they don’t even know each other“he added.
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