Just a few hours ago, Manuel Adorni reappeared publicly in an interview given to José Del Rio on the program LN+ small table. After several months of judicial, political and media questions about the evolution of his personal assets, his consumption, real estate operations and financial movements linked to cryptocurrencies. The Chief of Staff chose to give a television report to try to close a crisis that became one of the main political problems for Javier Milei’s government.
Far from lowering the media intensity, the official’s statements about his assets had an unusual impact on the media and social networks. During the note, Adorni maintained that his assets were built before he joined the national government and rejected accusations of illicit enrichment. Among the most resonant phrases of the report, the coordinator of ministers admitted: “We save in black like all Argentines”, and maintained: “We did not declare it because the way to escape from the old policy was to have savings in black”, and concluded: “It would never have occurred to me to save in white in those years.”
A significant moment during the dialogue was when the LLA leader revealed that he presented corrective affidavits to the Anti-Corruption Office corresponding to 2023 and 2024, incorporating assets that did not appear in their original presentations. According to his own explanation, the difference in assets would be around 500,000 dollars, amount whose origin he attributed to a combination of savings accumulated over years and profits obtained through investments in cryptocurrencies.
The most sensitive aspect of the explanations, by the Casa Rosada spokesperson, was precisely what was addressed about Bitcoin and other digital assets. The Chief of Staff stated that he had invested approximately $200,000 in cryptocurrencies and that these operations would have generated profits close to $300,000, an argument used to justify a good part of the asset growth observed in recent years, before entering public administration.
The curious responses of the minister’s coordinator brought up some tweets from the past, before he began his work at the presidential headquarters. On social networks, they shared posts in Very anecdotal messages, taking into account that at that time Manuel Adorni had hundreds of thousands of dollars in his financial portfolio.
“Today they cut off my electricity at home. I assumed an attack to silence me. I thought it was to keep me quiet. I feared for my family. I argued with the doorman and with the security of my building for such a distraction. Finally, they had cut it off for lack of payment. A joke,” was one of the tweets that went viral by digital users.
On his social networks, journalist Manu Jove recalled the work origins of the now presidential spokesperson with sharp irony: “He bought sausages in poor condition and worked at Gritalo TV, with 14 views on YouTube!” The reference to the low-view channel where Adorni made his first weapons as an economic analyst was the kickoff of a broader argument: How did someone who survived with those resources accumulate a fortune in cryptocurrencies before cryptocurrencies were massive?
That question that underlies the networks is the same one that runs through the judicial case being processed by the jjudge Ariel Lijo and prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita in Comodoro Py: Why did Manuel Adorni’s lifestyle take such an abrupt turn just after taking office as Secretary of Communication in December 2023?
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