Police accompanied by sniffer dogs searched the homes of Argentina’s former president Cristina Kirchner on Thursday as the investigation intensified into the so-called “notebooks” corruption scandal that has rocked the country.
The move came one day after judge Claudio Bonadio, who is leading the investigation into the multi-million-dollar bribery case, successfully petitioned the Senate to partially lift Kirchner’s congressional immunity to accommodate the searches.
Police are hunting for evidence that the leftist former leader (2007-2015) presided over a kickbacks scheme in which she and others in her administration accepted millions of dollars from businessmen in exchange for public works contracts.
As a senator, Kirchner enjoys congressional immunity from imprisonment, but not from prosecution.
Around 20 police officers entered Kirchner’s residence in the exclusive Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires just after midday (1500 GMT) as police vans and fire trucks…
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