Now the Council of the Judiciary has begun the investigation into a controversial federal judge from Rosario.

Finally, the Disciplinary Committee of the Council of the Judiciary, chaired by lawyer César Grau, linked to Kirchnerism, approved this Wednesday the request for copies of the case file of the controversial federal judge from Rosario, Gastón Salmain, requested by the investigating judge, Judge Alejandra Provítola.

After having postponed the treatment of Salmain's case last week, as reported by Clarín, who became a judge despite having been dismissed from the Justice system in 2002, this Wednesday began processing the file entitled "Testimonies File AAD 110/25 s/Action of Dr. Gastón Salmain (Federal Court No. 1 Rosario) ."

Thus, the President of the Magistrate Selection Committee, María Fernanda Vázquez, was asked to forward the complete original files or certified copies of all the files from the competitions in which Salmain participated and where he failed to report that he had been dismissed in a case of alleged bribery.

In a statement, the committee chaired by Grau also decided that since "said documentation could contain information about individuals other than the person named in the file, in addition to the tenor and scope of the facts brought to our attention, we request that these proceedings be declared confidential, and that this should be sought from today."

The vote was then taken on whether the file should be classified or public. Those in favor of publicity were: Grau, Judge Diego Barroetaveña, Judge Agustina Diaz Cordero, Hugo Galderisi, Luis Juez, Inés Pilatti Vergara, Mariano Recalde, and Eduardo Vischi.

And Provítola and Judge Alberto Lugones voted in the minority for the reservation.

Furthermore, Salmain has just been charged by a prosecutor for suspicions in the handling of social security injunctions. The current judge had been dismissed from the judiciary while working as a clerk in a court in the capital in 2001 for attempting to manipulate social security cases, as Clarín exclusively reported last month.

For this reason, he was reported to the Judicial Council before the July judicial recess. The president of the Court, Horacio Rosatti, promoted the opening of an investigation to clarify whether, as suspected, Salmain failed to declare his time in the judiciary when he registered for nearly 30 competitions until he won one and was appointed head of the Rosario Federal Court in 2023. He did so both to the Judiciary and then to the Senate.

This information is crucial because the regulations of the Council of the Judiciary establish that anyone who "has been removed from public office for poor performance of his or her duties" is prohibited from participating in a judicial aspiring competition.

Salmain, while a judicial official, was suspended by the Supreme Court in November 2001 after a Social Security employee claimed that Salmain called her to offer her a supposed bribe to have several cases filed with the pension court where he worked as a secretary because, he explained, he also worked for several law firms.