On Friday, April 25, the Anti-Corruption Office (OA) published the Resolution 3/2026 with the signature of its new owner, Gabriela Carmen Zangaro. The rule runs the expiration of the Comprehensive Asset Sworn Declarations of all national officials from May 30 to July 31. Two months of extension that, technically, are justified. Politically, timing is hard to ignore.
The justification for the OA is administrative: ARCA form F-1245 is fed with data from the declarations of Income and Personal Assets, which expire only during the first half of June. Without that data uploaded, officials cannot correctly complete your DJPI. The argument has regulatory support in General Resolution No. 4354-E/2018 and is technically coherent. The OA clarified that those who have not completed their tax presentations must complete the data manually.
The problem is the political context. The measure comes in the midst of the chief of staff’s wealth scandal Manuel Adorniinvestigated by alleged illicit enrichment before the Ariel Lijo court, at the request of federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita. The case has already recorded expenses in cash and dollars that exceed the US$48,720 that Adorni declared in savings: the family trip to Aruba alone demanded close to US$15,000 —accommodation in two hotels and LATAM tickets with stops in Peru and Ecuador. Added to that are the trips to Punta del Este and the return from New York.
In terms of properties, the picture is equally complex. Adorni declared a property in La Plata and half of an apartment in Parque Chacabuco, but Justice has a third property in Indio Cuaregistered in the name of his wife in November 2024. He had not stated it in his sworn statement; He reported it only this month, with the case already open and after the judicial request to the OA of all its documentation.
Zangaro took office less than a month ago, promoted by Justice Minister Juan Bautista Mahiques. Its first relevant resolution benefits—objectively, although unintentionally—the official with the hottest judicial case in the Executive. Adorni had publicly promised that his next sworn statement would destroy all doubts about his heritage. The extension of the OA postpones that moment for exactly two months.
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