Argentine prosecutors are investigating former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for money laundering, prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan said Friday, according to dpa. Marijuan told Radio Mitre that investigators are probing ties between Fernandez de Kirchner and her late husband, former president Nestor Kirchner, and a jailed construction tycoon, Lazaro Baez. Police on Thursday raided properties belonging to members of Kirchner's family, looking for documents related to a family company in connection to a separate suspected money laundering and corruption investigation. In May, Kirchner was indicted in an alleged scheme involving the manipulation of currency futures through the Argentina's central bank. In a Facebook post late Thursday, Fernandez de Kirchner slammed the investigations and raids as politically motivated. She lashed out at her successor Mauricio Macri and the country's media and judges for what she called a "campaign of persecution and defamation" against 12 years of Kirchner-led government intended to distract the public from rising inequality. "They are trying to create a new crime: that of having been part of the government between 2003-2015," she wrote. Nestor Kirchner was Argentina's president from 2003-2007. Fernandez de Kirchner succeeded him from 2007-2015.
