After the acquittal of the Kirchners of illicit enrichment, the Supreme Court fired it’s Chief of Accountants, Alfredo Peralta, who was in charge of the surveys in the presidential worth.
These experts work for the Court and the same is entitled to summary sanction them, suspend them and even fire them.
Peralta was in office since 1990 and had been suspected of corruption and manipulating investigations.
The function of this experts is to carry out accounting or financial investigations in the frame of cases on corruption, tax evasion, fraud, and bankruptcy fraud involving public officials, corporations and banks.
In many cases, the final result of the whole investigation lies in their hands. But sometimes they deliberately delay the investigations, which often leads to the prescription of the case. Sometimes they take a year or two before delivering their reports to judges or prosecutors.
