Prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita expects to receive in the coming days an extensive amount of information on the income and expenses of Manuel Adorni, for whom so far the numbers are not clear. That conclusion, which seems evident in light of the latest public revelations, is also held in the Comodoro Py courts, where the Chief of Staff is being investigated for illicit enrichment. For this reason, they anticipate that in the coming weeks an extensive accounting expertise would be ordered, although their assets will not be restricted.
Last Thursday, Judge Ariel Lijo ordered the lifting of the banking and tax secrecy of the official and his partner, the ontological coach Betina Angeletti. With this measure, Pollicita, in charge of the cause, launched a series of exhortations to different banking entities and virtual wallets to send all information related to savings accounts, safe deposit boxes, deposits, income and expenditure of money.
Movements under the magnifying glass
The representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office wants to know in detail the economic movements of the current official. The magnitude of the information required is such that, according to judicial sources, in the last eight business days there were more than 130 letters sent to different entities and organizations.
In addition to verifying each movement, the prosecutor seeks to have the complete film, that is, to know how Adorni’s assets evolved from January 1, 2022 to date. He wants to know what his expenses were like before he became a civil servant and how coming to power influenced his assets.
So far, it is known that there were major economic movements starting in November 2024. At that time, Adorni mortgaged his apartment on Assembly Avenue in exchange for a loan of 100 thousand dollars made to him by two members of the Federal Police, named Graciela Molina and Victoria Cancio, with an interest rate of 11% per year, to be paid in November of this year. And with that money, plus 20 thousand dollars that he gave, he and Angeletti bought the house at the Country Indio Cuá Golf Club, in Exaltación de la Cruz.
It is also known that another big real estate move was a year later, when he bought the apartment on Miró Street, in Caballito. It was after paying 30 thousand dollars in advance and obtaining the strange financing of the remaining 200 thousand dollars that the property came from Claudia Sbabo and Beatriz Viega, the two retirees who sold it to them. They agreed that the refund would be interest-free and payable next November.
A clue as to what happened before that, when Adorni was not a civil servant, was given by his historic scribe, the extravagant Adriana Nechevenko. On Thursday, in an interview on Infobae, they asked her how many real estate operations she had done before becoming a civil servant and the woman, laughing, responded: “Just none, nothing. Everything happened together.”
November alert
In the Courts they speak of a disproportionality between income and expenses that, for now, cannot be explained in what was declared by the libertarian official.
The thing is that for the real estate operations detailed above he gave at least 80 thousand dollars, when his salary until December of last year was approximately 3.5 million pesos and his savings barely touched 50 thousand dollars. All this without counting real estate commissions, payment of expenses, services and spare parts, for example.
For this reason, part of the expectation is set on the month of May, when the deadline for submitting your new Assets Affidavit to the Anti-Corruption Office expires.
Another date to keep in mind is next November. That month, Adorni has to pay the $200,000 financing that the retired Viega and Sbabo gave him, plus $70,000 that he owes to the lenders Molina and Cancio for the mortgage on the Assembly apartment.
According to Nechevenko, these debts will be met with the money obtained from the sale of the 138-square-meter property located at 1100 Assembly. In Zonaprop it is published at $289,990, but in Justice they say that we have to see when he sells it and for how much. They ordered it to be appraised.
How the case continues
Despite the apparent disproportionality of Adorni’s assets, Comodoro Py rules out, for now, that they may impose a measure of economic restriction, such as an embargo or freezing of his assets.
According to the sources consulted by Timeso far there are no reasons or conditions to do so. According to sources, there must be danger in the delay and plausibility of the right, but since his properties are mortgaged, Adorni cannot get rid of them.
In addition to the compilation of the information that will be sent to experts, the case will continue with the parade of testimonial statements, something that will last at least until the end of April. This Monday the 13th, the lenders Molina and Cancio will testify, and on Wednesday the 15th, the retirees Viega and Sbabo.
A week later – on Wednesday the 22nd – it will be the turn of Pablo Feijóo, a real estate businessman, son of Viega, who intervened in the purchase of the Caballito apartment and is the one who Adorni left in charge of the sale of the property on Assembly Avenue, according to the Zonaprop site. The group of those cited also includes a contractor who would have made renovations to the Country Indio Cuá home and the person in charge of the building located in Miró. It is not ruled out that there will be more calls.
The flights
In parallel to the case for illicit enrichment, Lijo and Pollicita are advancing in the investigation of the flight to Punta del Este that Adorni made together with his family and his friend Marcelo Grandío, in mid-February. The immigration records of the current official are under judicial scrutiny, as are the details of his return trip from New York, in mid-March, after participating in the Argentina Week event.
From that trip, which he went on the presidential plane with his partner, they both returned to the country outside the delegation. In recent days it emerged that the official’s first-class ticket cost $4,910, while his wife’s cost $5,154, which investigators are seeking to determine who paid.
Meanwhile, Adorni remains in government. The official who spoke so many times about the end of the privileges of politics, spends his days in silence and with a defender dedicated to a strategy to prove that he was not illicitly enriched. «
Decisive hours on the Nation’s loans to officials
The Federal Justice sitting in the Comodoro Py courts will define in the coming days whether to investigate the complaints regarding the million-dollar loans received by economic officials from the government of Javier Milei and libertarian leaders. According to judicial sources Timewith the beginning of the week a series of complaints that were made days ago would be grouped together to be sent to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The different complaints fell on three Courts, but their accumulation was decided in the one that received the first presentation. Thus, federal judge Ariel Lijo was in charge. This Monday the magistrate is expected to send the presentations to prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita, who must decide whether to promote the investigation, dismiss it or ask for measures before making a decision, this medium learned.
The presentations are targeted at the former president of Banco Nación, Daniel Tillard, and Juan Curutchet, an official at the Central Bank. But in another of the presentations, the beneficiaries of the suspected credits are also reported.
In one of the complaints accessed by this newspaper, the case of Federico Furiase, current Secretary of Finance, appears, who would have received a loan of at least 300 million pesos. Journalist Alejandro Bercovich revealed days ago that with these funds he bought a 200-square-meter house in a private neighborhood. Another of those who appears denounced is Felipe Núñez, advisor to the Ministry of Economy, who has a debt of 373 million pesos.
“We did not do anything illegal or immoral,” they both said days ago in the streaming Fuckwhere they rehearsed an explanation that included a defense of the competitiveness of the credit products of the public bank that the government they formed wanted to privatize.
Among the people reported is also the national director of Digital Communication Juan Pablo Carreira, known as Juan Doe, with a credit of $112 million; Juan Pedro Inchauspe, director of the Central Bank, with $510 million; in addition to other cases such as that of the libertarian deputies Mariano Campero, Lorena Villaverde and Alejandro Bongiovanni.
If the complaints are promoted and a judicial case formally begins, Lijo and Pollicita will once again be at the forefront of an investigation with government officials and libertarian leaders under the microscope. Both are in charge of the two cases that involve the Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni.
