Ricardo Jaime asked the Supreme Court for house imprisonment

Former Transport Secretary Ricardo Jaime, imprisoned since 2016 and with three unified convicts of eight years in prison, insists and now asked the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation to house imprisonment for his state of health.

The presentation was made at the beginning of the month by Alberto Trugman, Jaime's lawyer. The Federal Oral Court 6, which tries the former official for illicit enrichment, refused yesterday to grant him this benefit.

“Our defendant was deprived of assistance appropriate to his state of health and age. Thus, the detainee's pre-existing pathologies worsened, to which others were added as a result of the inhuman treatment to which he has been subjected since 02/04/2016, “said the defense in its presentation to which Infobae agreed.

In April 2016 Jaime was arrested and since then he has been imprisoned. Today he is staying in Ezeiza prison. He has three convictions: for bribery of transport businessmen whom he was supposed to control, for the attempted theft of evidence during a break-in at his house and for the tragedy of Once. Consolidated cases, he has a sentence of eight years in prison.

Jaime's health problem occurred on Sunday, February 27 and was spread through the Twitter account managed by his relatives. “Last night the doctor came and (Sic) shift manager came to tell me that today they had to take me to the Hospital because Sunday was a stroke and they need to continue their studies. I refused 6 years of pre-trial detention, it is illegal and whatever God wants”, was published on March 2, at 11.09.

That day Jaime was transferred to the Italian Hospital but refused to be hospitalized even though local doctors advised him to do so. The former official signed a record in which his refusal was recorded. He suffered an ischemic stroke.

“Everything worsened because the biological time of the detainee runs faster than the procedural times of the house arrest process,” his defense put before the Supreme Court. He added: “He meant that his imprisonment by application of preventive detention has exceeded the deadlines established in Law 24390. He is right, because he is in pretrial detention extended beyond the legal limit and without any conviction for which he has lost his state of innocence”.

But the judges of the Federal Oral Court 6 yesterday rejected Jaime's request for house detention. They did so on the basis of medical reports stating that “the patient had no evaluable neurological sequelae on physical examination since his return to that unit on 2/27/22; and having undergone a new MRI of the brain, the results were within normal parameters”.

The prosecutor of the trial, Gabriela Baigún, had ruled in favor of the former transport secretary of the governments of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner receiving house imprisonment. “Jaime suffered a specific episode that put his health at risk and that prompted the Prison Service to transfer him from his place of detention to a hospital located within this city. And although no new events of this kind were found later, the fact is that the mere fact that it happened on one occasion is already serious, especially if one takes into account that, in view of his actions, the SPF authorities obviously considered that the defendant's suffering could not be treated in Unit IV of Ezeiza,” he argued.

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