The scandal for the coimas audios that involved the former head of the National Disability Agency (Andis), Diego Spagnuolo, uncovered something much deeper: the direct link between political power, directly implying Karina Milei and the President, Javier Milei, and Swiss Argentina SA, a drugstore that accumulate contracts for more than $ 100,000 million with the national government.
The official records of the Public tenders show that the company, by Emmanuel Kovalivker and linked to Clan Mene, Not only does it supply medications to Ministry of Healthbut also achieved a privileged place in sensitive areas of the State as Defense and security.
In just a year and a half, Swiss Argentina participated – and won – in 105 bidding processes, which exposes the clearly favorable business climate During the management of Javier Milei.
In Defenseunder the orbit of the minister Luis Petrithe drugstore closed operations with the Staff of the Navy and with him Hospital Naval Pedro Malleither. There he sold surgical gloves for $105 millions and expects the award of another contract for $133 millions for physiological solution and ringer lactate, research data published in the newspaper Financial scope According to the official site Copra.ar. Also obtained payments for $469 millions for high -cost medications, immunosuppressants, anticoagulants and antitumor.
But the star ministry in this relationship is Securityconducted by Patricia Bullrich. Through the Argentine Federal Police, Swiss Argentina sustained multimillion -dollar figures:
• February 2025: High cost medications, $ 1,680 million.
• March 2025: Oncological, $ 365 million.
• April 2025: Monoclonal antibodies with cold chain, $ 939 million, oncological medications, $ 365 million.
• May 2025: Antitumoral, $ 1,426 million; HIV medications, $ 301 million; neurological, $ 26 million, among others.*
While other drug stores closed contracts for amounts that went from $ 1 to $ 184 million, Argentine Swiss concentrated awards that exceeded, in some cases, the one billion pesos per operation.
These contracts are added to the bulky tenders acquired through Ministry of Health. On May 17, 2024, the company achieved with the National Hospital Posadas the award for a total amount of $ 41,498,365 for the supply of medical supplies for endoscopy and gastroenterology, according to the checking carrier.
On the other hand, tenders for oncological medicines where the total amount awarded to Swiss Argentina amounted to $762.100.360representing approximately 68% of the total value of the tender, and was the only supplier of a tender for this portfolio in July 2024, resulting in the award on May 21, 2025 for more than 72 million pesos. He also won tenders in other provinces, such as San Luis, Entre Ríos, La Pampa and Buenos Aires.
The political link: spagnuolo, milei and coimas
The complaint of coimas in the Andis takes on a new meaning in this framework. The former director Spagnuolo, separated by the dissemination of audios where there was talk of illegal payments, maintained the key to a strategic area such as Andis, but at the same time he was a man of extreme confidence of President Milei.
The question is inevitable: how a company accused of lubricating with coimas its businesses ended up concentrating multimillion -dollar contracts in health, safety and defense, with access to the most sensitive springs of the State? What today appears as an “isolated scandal” with spagnuolo and coimas in andispue being, in reality, the tip of the iceberg of a business system guaranteed from the top of political power.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
