9 de abril 2001 - 00:00

Weapons: Urso ordered the confrontation between Yoma and the former official, Sarlenga

The federal judge, Jorge Urso, is to take a position in the next hours about the confrontation in which Emir Yoma will have to prove that the accusations made by Luis Sarlenga are false.

It is the only choice he has to leave his jail in the Buenos Aires gendarmerie.

The former presidential advisor, Yoma, is accused of being the "organizer of a delinquent association" which lobbied several ministries' offices and acted as go between in the sale of weapons to Croatia and Ecuador, when those operations were seized at an international level and because the corresponding decrees set that the final destination of the distraints of those weapons was Panama and Venezuela.

Serlanga is also under arrest in Buenos Aires gendarmerie and, before his arrest, he had paid a bail of $150,000 to get parole because he had been prosecuted and arrested on the charges of smuggling by the criminal-economic judge Marcelo Aguinsky. Aguinsky could be acquitted tomorrow of impeachment, charges filed in the Magistrates' council.

Yoma was arrested early on Saturday in his flat located in Del Libertador Avenue. He was taken to the Federal Police's office in Lugano. After being examined by Urso and Stornelli he was taken to the gendarmerie.

Sarlenga accused Yoma of, among other things, having negotiated with different former ministries Erman González and Oscar Camilión (Defense), Guido Di Tella (Foreign Department) and Domingo Cavallo (Economy)- the signature of the decrees authorizing the seizure of weapons for Croatia, which was protecting itself from Bosnia's attack in the Balkan war and for Ecuador, which was having conflicts with Peru.

Determining facts

Yoma will have to deny Sarlenga's statements he also accused Yoma of having allowed the sale of cannons and other heavy military staff to Croatia while Fabricaciones Militares was not able to carry out the negotiation with Croatian high officials who had arrived in Buenos Aires- in a confrontation to take place today or tomorrow after the former presidential advisor analyses all the evidence against him.

Until Urso comes to a decision about Yoma's presumed innocence -after examining other evidence and the statements of other officials like Gonzáles, Di Tella, Camilión or Balza- he will remain under arrest for, until today, an indefinite period of time.

 



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