“For the political caste, the State is like a spoil of war“That concept, with variants, came out several times from the mouth of a Javier Milei that every time he could he accused his political adversaries of living at the expense of the State or of being “thieves.” The idea resonates strongly in light of the latest revelations in the $Libra case.
The recent expertise added to the file yielded a large amount of evidence that shows how the crypto businessman Mauricio Novelliclose to the president, would have sought to capitalize on that proximity to promote businesses that always revolved around the presidential inauguration or the government itself.
Much of the content of that expertise, which emerged last weekend, shows the level of access that Novelli had to the top of the Government. Since the wild calls he had with the president, his sister Karina Milei and the advisor Santiago Caputo the day the $Libra token was launched and collapsed, promoted from the official account of the head of state, to the selfies that the businessman took moving like a fish in water around the Casa Rosada, just to mention examples.
Novelli’s sister, another element
In fact, one of the most representative elements of how the presidential investiture was used has as its protagonist Maria Pia Novelli. This is the sister of the trader and friend of Milei, of whom until now it was only known that, on the first business day after the explosion of $Libra, He went with his mother Alicia to empty some safe deposit boxes that his brother Mauricio It had opened days before, in a bank branch in Martínez. But in the investigation it was found, among other things, that in January 2024, when the libertarian government was just beginning to roll out, he sent a message “representing Javier Milei’s team”, a situation that he was responsible for repeating at the end of his message.
The chat was with a film production company to whom he proposed the idea of making a documentary film about the libertarian rise to the Presidency.
Neither in the Official Gazette nor in the State Map do there appear records of hiring or appointments of María Pía Novelli. Did anyone authorize her to speak on behalf of the presidential team? Who was part of that team? The questions are becoming more and more.
Novelli’s proximity to Milei
Another element that reflects the same is a message that Mauricio Novelli sent to the WhatsApp group organizing the Tech Forum 2024. After asking for a flyer to promote Milei’s presence at that event, the young businessman informed them that he was going to meet with the president and that “I’m going to grab his cell phone to give him RT“Although it is impossible to know if that really happened, the message is nothing more than an example of the closeness he exhibited towards the Argentine president.
It is worth remembering that the president closed the 2024 edition of the Tech Forum, which Novelli organized with the other accused crypto businessman, Manuel Terrones Godoy. The event was at the Hotel Libertador, closed to a group of international leaders in digital assets and blockchain. One of the many lines of investigation that the file has, which is in the hands of the prosecutor Eduardo Taianoaims to clarify whether it is true that, as stated, there were charges of millionaire sums in dollars in that environment in exchange for face-to-face meetings with the president.
The complaint
The suspicion appears in a complaint filed by the deputies Maximiliano Ferraro and Monica Frade in Comodoro Py. This motivated the opening of case 772/2025, which at that time was titled “Milei, Karina on incompatible negotiations“That was the file to which the investigation of Milei’s promotional tweet about $Libra was attached, when in a striking decision the judge Ariel Lijoin charge of the Court of Maria Servini who was on leave, declined jurisdiction and sent the proceedings to the Court where they currently are, in charge of Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi.
But Novelli’s business dealings with the State did not end with the president’s participation in the event’s closing speech. The Tech Forum website itself, which was taken down, was sponsored by the Argentine government. The acronym Argentina.gob.ar appeared on the site as an institutional partner.
According to the elements found on Novelli’s iPhone, the intentions of doing business around the Argentine government and the presidential figure did not end at that first Tech Forum. It seems that they didn’t even end with the launch of the $Libra token. If things went well, they planned for the president to give a speech again at the 2025 edition of the event. The flyers were prepared and were published on Saturday in Time.
The images confirmed it once again for the president. And, according to sources with access to the content of the expert report, the organizers were looking for more participation, saying that the president’s participation was guaranteed.
They planned, among other things, to sell a package called “Diamond“, during the event, for a total of US$ 200 thousand. The suspicion is that this rate would have included the possibility of a meeting with the president. A “secret meeting” was the term with which they wanted to sell it.
But none of that could be realized. The 2025 edition of the Tech Forum, scheduled for April of that year, was cut short when the deal with $Libra went wrong and ended in a scandal that was beyond the predictions of Novelli and the rest of the crypto-libertarian enthusiasts.
These and other evidence that emerged in recent days allow us to infer that all of Novelli’s movements occurred in a context of presidential passivity. The document found on the businessman’s cell phone that he published on Saturday The Uncoveringwhich reveals a $5 million deal around Milei and $Libra, suggests an even more serious official attitude.
This entire network of contacts, messages and business projects is today part of the file processed at Comodoro Py. There are 40 gigabytes of information that prosecutor Taiano has had at his disposal since at least the beginning of January, and that is still under analysis today, according to judicial sources told this Monday. Time.
When the prosecutor launched the investigation, back in late February 2025, he framed the case as a possible commission of the crimes of abuse of authority, fraud, influence peddling and bribery. “We believe that 90% of the crimes he is accused of are proven. Negotiations incompatible with the public service are very proven“said the complainant this Monday. Martin Romeo in statements to Radio With You.
The Milei, without defense
Meanwhile, neither the president nor his sister Karina Milei, general secretary of the Presidency, have a defense lawyer appointed despite being formally charged. Yes, the rest of the participants in the scheme are, like Mauricio Novelli.
In light of the recent revelations, the dedication of the businessman’s defense, led by the lawyer, makes even greater sense. Daniel Rubinovichin separating the president from all responsibility regarding the $Libra case, as they did since the first judicial document presented in May of last year and which revealed Time.
Thus, the evidence that emerged from Novelli’s cell phone expertise began to show what the movement around political power was like and the conviction that closeness to the president could translate into business opportunities. The story is developing and open-ended.
