Nicolás Eduardo Becerra
{{short description|Argentine politician (1943–2023)}}
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| name = Nicolás Eduardo Becerra
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| office = Attorney General of Argentina
| president = {{unbulleted list|Carlos Menem|Fernando de la Rúa|Ramón Puerta (acting)|Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (interim)|Eduardo Duhalde (interim)|Nestor Kirchner}}
| term_start = 23 April 1997
| term_end = 5 February 2004
| predecessor = Ángel Nicolás Agüero Iturbe
| successor = Esteban Righi
| office1 = National Deputy
| term_start1 = 24 April 1991
| term_end1 = 9 December 1995
| constituency1 = Mendoza
| birth_date = {{birth date|1943|01|25|df=y}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|04|09|1943|01|25|df=y}}
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| party = Justicialist Party
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Nicolás Eduardo Becerra (25 January 1943 – 9 April 2023) was an Argentine lawyer and politician. He served as Attorney General of Argentina from 1997 to 2004. He also served as National Deputy from Mendoza Province from 1991 to 1995.
Political career
Becerra served as a national deputy for the Justicialista Party for the province of Mendoza between 24 April 1991 and 9 December 1995, as general defender of the Nation, secretary of the Cabinet headquarters—when the incumbent was Eduardo Bauzá—and was Attorney General of the Nation between 23 April 1997 and 5 February 2004. In this last position, he issued important opinions, such as when he ruled for the invalidity of the Laws of Due Obedience and Full Stop, for the imprescriptibility of crimes such as the theft of babies from the disappeared and in favor of savers affected by the "corralito".{{cite news|title=Murió Nicolas Becerra, el ex procurador general de la Nación nombrado por Carlos Menem|url=https://www.infobae.com/politica/2023/04/09/murio-el-ex-procurador-de-la-nacion-nicolas-becerra/|accessdate=9 April 2023|publisher=Infobae|date=9 April 2023}}
Becerra was appointed regular arbitrator in the Mercosur Arbitration Court for the 2000 to 2004 and 2004 to 2008 periods.{{cite web |url= http://www.tprmercosur.org/es/estr_comp_ant.htm
|title= Tribunal Permanente de Revisión |accessdate= 31 May 2017 }}
In June 2001, Juan Gasparini and Rodrigo de Castro stated{{cite book |last1=De Castro |first1=Rodrigo |last2=Gasparini|first2=Juan |author-link2=Juan Gasparini |date=2000 |title=La delgada línea blanca |url= |location=Argentina |publisher=Ediciones B |page=137 |isbn=9789501522211}} that Becerra had an undeclared bank account at the Credit Suisse bank in Zürich which led to an investigation that ended when federal judge Juan José Galeano rejected the request to investigate that account by requesting the lifting of bank secrecy from Switzerland, as requested by federal prosecutors; Gasparini and De Castro also linked Becerra to different criminal acts. The former prosecutor filed a lawsuit against Gasparini that was later dropped.{{cite web|url= http://periodicotribuna.com.ar/867-otra-vez-becerra-.html|title= Otra vez Becerra|accessdate= 31 May 2017}}
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Category:20th-century Argentine lawyers
Category:21st-century Argentine lawyers
Category:Attorneys general of Argentina
Category:Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Mendoza
Category:Justicialist Party politicians