The National Court of Criminal Appeals confirmed this Thursday the prosecution against former soccer player Claudio Paul Caniggia for the crime of "aggravated sexual abuse" against his ex-wife Mariana Nannis Silles. In a resolution signed by chambermaids Mariano Scotto and Juan Cicciaro, the second instance ratified the prosecution and seizure of five million pesos that the investigating judge Fabiana Palmaghini applied to the former soccer player two months ago. Among the arguments, the chamber members defined that "in no way can the assessment formulated by the intervening magistrate appear to be arbitrary." In the appeal before the Buenos Aires Crime Chamber, the defense of the former soccer star questioned the veracity of the fact and also the legal classification. To this, Scotto and Cicciaro responded that "given the evidence that the fact investigated did not have eyewitnesses or other direct evidence, the events that constitute crimes against sexual integrity must be reconstructed based on the circumstantial evidence available." ".