The two women who appear as sellers and, at the same time, as lenders in the controversial purchase of the Chief of Staff’s apartment in Caballito Manuel Adorni were identified as Beatriz Viegas72 years old, and Claudia Sbabo64. According to the official records of the real estate operation, both were listed as owners of the property since April 2025 and transferred it in November of that year for a total of $230,000, while granting a non-bank mortgage for $200,000, equivalent to almost 90% of the purchase value.
The documentation from the Real Estate Registry shows that each of them participated equally in both the sale and the credit, which made the same sellers creditors of the official. Both women, however, publicly denied any connection with the official. Asked by journalists from different media, Viegas responded categorically: “No, not really,” when asked if she knew Adorni, and also denied having lent him money. In the case of Sbabo, the response was similar: “I don’t know him, the truth is I don’t know”, and when asked about the alleged loan, they added from their environment: “No, I have no idea about those things.”
These testimonies generated a new focus of judicial suspicion, since both are formally listed as creditors of the mortgage loan that allowed the operation to be carried out. Regarding her employment situation, Viegas appears as retired, while Sbabo appears in records as an employee of a publishing house, which reinforces doubts about her financial capacity to grant a loan of that volume.
The purchase of the property, a unit of almost 200 square meters in a high-value area of the Caballito neighborhood, was deeded for $230,000, despite journalistic investigations indicating that its market value was around $340,000. The financing was structured through a private mortgage of $200,000, granted by the sellers themselves.
Faced with criticism, Adorni maintained that the operation will be included in his next affidavit and stated: “what is not declared is because the affidavit has not expired.” However, Justice is investigating whether there were financial inconsistencies and whether the operation was duly reported to the control bodies, within the framework of a case for alleged illicit enrichment.
In a television interview on La Nación+, the Buenos Aires leader Graciela Ocaña He referred to the issue by announcing that one of the retirees received a subsidy of 60,000 pesos, from the Government of the City of Buenos Aires and known as a cultural pass, for seniors with less than 600 thousand pesos of income. A fact that national legislator Marcela Pagano of the Coherencia bloc replied on her social networks.
The episode adds to a series of controversies surrounding the official. Among them, the trip to New York on the presidential plane with his wife Bettina Angeletti —who does not hold public office— within the framework of the meeting Argentina Week, which generated questions about the use of State resources.
Also the transfer to Punta del Este on a private jet whose financing was not clarified; and the acquisition of a property in the Indio Cuá country, in Exaltación de la Cruz, registered in the name of his partner. These situations motivated complaints promoted by legislators such as Esteban Paulón, Pablo Juliano and Maximiliano Ferraro, who maintain that the operations “must be clarified” and aim to determine if there is a patrimonial evolution incompatible with the declared income of the Chief of Staff.
by RN
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