At Casa Rosada they admit that Manuel Adorni He will present his sworn statement only between the end of May and the beginning of June, that is, between 20 and 25 days from today. The detail has its own irony: the Soccer World Cup starts on June 11. Five weeks.
The timing contrasts with the president’s promise Javier Mileiwho came out to defend his Chief of Staff, ensuring that he has “all things ready” and that the papers would be presented urgently. “The numbers are in order and they will be presented,” said the president. However, in Adorni’s own circle they recognize that the formal presentation will take much longer than his boss suggested.
The pressure for the official to make his financial situation transparent escalated after the Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich publicly demanded that he hand over the documentation “immediately.” Adorni himself, in his last conference, had said that he would present his statement before July 31, the deadline extended by ARCA, without showing any rush due to the political wear and tear it generates in the government.
What should you show?
The investigation for alleged illicit enrichment that falls on the former spokesperson points to several inconsistencies: a house in the country Indio Cuá Golf Clubin Exaltación de la Cruz, where a contractor declared in court that he had carried out renovations for about $245,000, charged in cash and without an invoice; a department in little horse acquired through an atypical loan granted by the sellers themselves—two retirees who would have financed close to 90% of the price—; and high-cost trips including private plane transfers to Punta del Este and a family stay in Aruba on first-class flights. The episode of the Public TV host was also under scrutiny. Marcelo Grandiolinked to the payment of the flight to the Uruguayan resort.
Fat Dan and football as a curtain
While the case continues to accumulate files, Daniel Parisinithe libertarian influencer known as El Gordo Dan, came out to agitate on his networks that “the World Cup is not far away.” It is not a minor fact: football has a proven historical capacity to displace from the public agenda the problems that most bother those in power. That Adorni’s affidavit—promised “immediately” by Milei—ends up arriving just when the world is looking at the courts of the United States, Mexico and Canada is, to say the least, a coincidence worth recording.
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