“After seven years of pressure, false accusations and a long legal battle, an Argentine court on Thursday [Sept. 3] definitively dismissed the case against Clarín journalist Daniel Santoro, who had been accused of being part of an alleged network of spies and extortionists seeking to implicate then-President Cristina Kirchner in corruption cases.
Federal Judge Julián Ercolini, following a request from prosecutor Alejandra Mángano, signed the final dismissal of the case against Santoro […].
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Ercolini’s ruling thus brings an end, at least as far as the journalist is concerned, to a case that was launched in [the Argentine city of] Dolores in early 2019 and was for years marked by allegations of espionage, extortion and alleged political operations.”
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