This Monday the indictment of the former director of the National Disability Agency (ANDis) Diego Spagnuolo in the criminal case in which it is investigated a plot of corruption and illegal appropriation of public funds by a group of officials Freedom Advances. The cause originated after a series of audios came to light in which the same Spanish recognized the framework and assigned a central role to the general secretary of the Presidency Karina Milei and its slope Eduardo “Lule” Menem.
Almost five months after the case began, the judge Sebastian Casanelloholder of Federal Criminal and Correctional Court 11 of the City of Buenos Aires, decided to prosecute Spagnuolo and 18 others. It is about Daniel Garbellini (former ANDis official also named in the audios), Miguel Ángel Calvete, Ornella Calvete, Pablo Atchabahian, Diego D’Giano, Roger Grant, Eduardo González, Lorena By Day, Andres Arnaudo, Silvana Escudero, Alejandro Fuentes Acosta, Patrick Rama, Federico Santich, Guadalupe Muñoz, Julio Viera, Patricia Canavesio, Ruth Lozano y Luciana Ferrari.
The plot of bribes and illegal returns focused on the drug purchasing system implemented in the in ANDparticularly within the framework of the program Include Healthduring the administration headed by Spanish.
It is worth remembering that this theft of million-dollar public funds occurred in parallel with a policy of emptying the organization and a profound attack on thousands of people with disabilities who were cut, or directly eliminated, basic and elementary benefits for their complex situations. What configures a picture of perversion and cruelty orchestrated from the high peaks of political power.
They have not yet been prosecuted in the case. Karina Milei, Lule Menem and other prominent figures of the Casa Rosada. that the judge Casanello and the federal prosecutor Franco Picardi They have not even been called to give a testimonial statement, it can have several readings. One of the most convincing is that the Judiciary wants to protect the President’s closest environment. It will be necessary to see if the recent prosecutions make Spanish and company expand their statements and provide more information that forces the judge and the prosecutor to look “higher.”
Others who, for the moment, are getting away with the same cause are the owners of the Swiss Argentine Drugstore especially the brothers Emmanuel y Jonathan Kovalivkerwho starred in murky sequences (with almost cinematic escapes) during raids on their homes in private neighborhoods in Greater Buenos Aires. The Swiss Argentina carry decades providing medicines to the State and during the first two years of Milei’s management His profits increased at a phenomenal rate.
In the processing failure, Casanello says that after an exhaustive investigation, prosecutor Picardi confirmed that “certain people (officials of the in AND and the private sector linked to the health sector), in a coordinated manner and under spurious agreements, formed a criminal organization for the purposes of committing crimes that allowed them to obtain large sums of money improperly, to the detriment of the public administration.”
And he adds that between December 2023 and October 2025 the in AND had become an “operations center” for various crimes, “as a window for millionaire, permanent and directed payments, awarded in procedures outside the legal framework that did not guarantee the principles of competition, publicity or transparency; as a window for payments with surcharges for the benefit of suppliers with links to the officials in charge; and, furthermore, as a window administered and/or co-managed by external agents with strong influence in the health sector, especially drugstores and high-cost input firms.”
Although up to now the “chain of command” is cut, according to Casanello, in the former ANDis head, it is not possible to ignore that, until the same day the audios of the scandal were leaked, Diego Spagnuolo was a friend and personal lawyer of Javier Milei. In fact, when they went to search his home, they found several blank papers in his car with the President’s signature, since as his defender in some cases he had the delegated power to mercy for various procedures.
Result very little credible what brothers mercy knew absolutely nothing of the corrupt network set up in the in AND. The level of involvement of the presidential couple in the case is still unknown. It can range from only knowing about the subject from the story of close friends who know what was happening there to directly joining the illicit association and even being the biggest beneficiaries of the bribes.
One way or the other, There is a lot they know and nothing they say. Meanwhile, although the case has lost notoriety over the months, A large part of society continues to keep in mind the 3% awarded to the “high coimera”something that the Casa Rosada could not and did not know how to avoid, choosing silence and diverting attention instead of giving coherent explanations that would allow its followers to even convince themselves of official innocence.
With Monday’s indictments, the matter may be just beginning. It’s bad that despite the mediocre Milei propagandists who only send out frantic messages talking about how well they are doing.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
