A supporter holds up a percussion instrument with an image of former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner outside her house after Argentina's Supreme Court upheld her guilty verdict for defrauding the state, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 10, 2025.
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Buenos Aires: Argentina's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a guilty verdict that sentenced two-term former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to six years in prison for defrauding the state and banned her from public office, local media reported.
Kirchner, 72, a polarizing figure and leftist who served as president from 2007 to 2015, was convicted by a trial court in 2022 for a fraud scheme that steered public road work projects in the Patagonia to a close ally while she was president.
Kirchner has denied wrongdoing and claims she is a victim of political persecution.