{"id":21873,"date":"2022-12-07T18:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T12:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=21873"},"modified":"2022-12-07T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T12:34:02","slug":"argentine-vp-gets-6-years-imprisonment-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2022\/12\/07\/argentine-vp-gets-6-years-imprisonment-for-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentine VP Gets 6 Years\u2019 Imprisonment for Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argentina&#8217;s Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been sentenced to six years in jail for corruption and a lifetime ban from holding public office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Argentine court on Tuesday convicted the 69-year-old of &#8220;fraudulent administration&#8221; over irregular public works contracts awarded during her two-term presidency between 2007 and 2015, reports Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Vice President will not face immediate imprisonment and is also expected to appeal against the sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She denied the allegations and called the court a &#8220;firing squad&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the first time that a sitting Vice President has been convicted of a crime in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also on Tuesday, Fernandez de Kirchner wrote on social media after the ruling that she will not be a candidate for any political office in 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina&#8217;s Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been sentenced to six years in jail for corruption and a lifetime ban from holding public office. An Argentine court on Tuesday convicted the 69-year-old of &#8220;fraudulent administration&#8221; over irregular public works contracts awarded during her two-term presidency between 2007 and 2015, reports Xinhua news agency. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21875,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21873\/revisions\/21875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}