Two-time former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the men convicted alongside her in the corruption case known as “Vialidad” have been ordered to return AR$685 billion (US$542 million) that they were found to have obtained through fraudulent public works contracts.

Judges at Buenos Aires’ Federal Oral Court number 2 signed the resolution ordering the repayment on Tuesday. They dismissed alternative calculations provided by accounting experts from Kirchner’s legal team and the public prosecutor’s office on the grounds of methodological discrepancies.

Kirchner and the others convicted in the case have 10 working days from the date of the resolution to pay the money into a special judicial bank account.

The judges wrote that the sum, totalling AR$684,990,350,139.86, was “the consequence of a good-faith process to determine the harm produced to the public purse that, as a counterpart, was considered the product of an extremely serious act of corruption.”

The convicts’ assets could also be seized by the judiciary to recoup the sum.

The Supreme Court upheld the conviction against Kirchner and several other public officials and businessmen on June 10. This meant the defendants had exhausted their appeals and their sentences could take effect. 

Kirchner now faces six years in house arrest and a lifelong ban on holding public office. Last week, the Federal Cassation Chamber ruled that she must continue to wear an ankle monitor and is subject to visitation restrictions at the flat where she is serving her sentence, in the southern Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución.

The resolution did not specify how much each individual would have to pay.

Kirchner has not commented publicly on the repayment order. However, she has long maintained that the case against her is politically motivated.

In the “Vialidad” case, Kirchner was convicted of funneling 51 public works contracts in Santa Cruz province to a company belonging to her friend Lázaro Báez, in a process deemed fraudulent by Argentina’s judiciary.