21 Facts About Amado Boudou

Amado Boudou previously served as Minister of Economy from 2009 to 2011.

Amado Boudou was then sentenced to five years and ten months in prison, and banned for life from holding public office.

Amado Boudou's father, named Amado, was born to a French immigrant from Aveyron named Aime, and this became a nickname for both.

Amado Boudou was raised in the ocean-front city of Mar del Plata and enrolled in the National University of Mar del Plata, where he received a degree in economics, in 1986; described by acquaintances as a sociable type and fond of the bass guitar, he helped produce a number of rock concerts in Mar del Plata in his days as a student, including a festival attended by 15,000 spectators.

Amado Boudou closed when one of its top municipal clients terminated the contract in 1995.

Amado Boudou married Daniela Andriuolo in 1993, but they were divorced five years later; they had no children.

Amado Boudou entered public service in 1998, when he was named to the Comptroller's Office of the National Social Security Administration by Economy Minister Roque Fernandez, and in February 2001, he was named that office's general manager.

Amado Boudou was appointed its director in October 2008, after Massa's promotion to the powerful post of Presidential Cabinet Chief.

In October 2010 Amado Boudou compared Candelaria de la Sota and Martin Kanenguiser, journalists from Clarin and La Nacion, with the people cleaning the gas chambers during the Holocaust.

Amado Boudou's attack was condemned by the FOPEA, members of the legislature, and the DAIA.

The DAIA accused him of trivializing the holocaust, and Congressman Eduardo Amadeo demanded his resignation; Amado Boudou later stated that this was a badly chosen metaphor.

Amado Boudou was nominated as running mate on President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's Front for Victory ticket for the 2011 elections.

Vice President Amado Boudou assumed presidential duties for twenty days on 4 January 2012, while President Fernandez de Kirchner underwent a thyroidectomy and convalesced.

Amado Boudou again assumed presidential duties for 42 days on 8 October 2013, while President Fernandez de Kirchner underwent surgery to relieve bleeding on her brain and convalesced.

The controversy arose following statements made by the ex-wife of Ciccone executive Alejandro Vanderbroele to the effect that Amado Boudou was his silent partner in the firm.

Amado Boudou was indicted on passive bribery and influence peddling charges by Judge Ariel Lijo on 27 June 2014; Boudou appealed the indictment on 10 July, alleging malicious prosecution.

On 3 November 2017, Amado Boudou was arrested on charges of money laundering and racketeering, during the ongoing trial.

Amado Boudou has been banned for life from holding public office.

Amado Boudou is jailed at a prison in Ezeiza, alongside other inmates convicted in corruption cases during the Kirchner government, such as Jose Lopez and Lazaro Baez.

Amado Boudou claims that he is a victim of political persecution.

The attorneys of Nunez Carmona, who was accused along with Amado Boudou, asked Judge Ramos Padilla to investigate if the testimony of Vandenbroele was indeed prepared by members of the AFI and the Ministry of Security.