The judicial investigation into the patrimonial evolution of the Chief of Staff added a new and extravagant chapter after detecting a million-dollar purchase of high-end linen and lounge items that would have been hidden from the authorities. “On 6/2/25 Manuel Adorni He bought 3 mattresses, pillows, a comforter and sheets at Rosen The Store, for $8,183,303 for his new weekend home. The then spokesperson did not buy them in his name, but instead sent his private secretary Giosela Kocsis, appointed in the Government House in 2011. It is another of the expenses of the current Chief of Staff that the prosecutor is investigating Gerardo Pollicita in the cause of illicit enrichment,” highlighted journalist Mariel Fitz Patrick in her X account.
The commercial maneuver was formally discovered by the Federal Justice during the technical expertise carried out on the cell phone of a contractor who carried out building renovations on a weekend property belonging to the official. According to the evidence collected in the file, the transaction consisted of the acquisition of three mattresses, pillows, a duvet and premium sheets for a total amount of 8,183,303.25 pesos from the specialized firm Rosen The Store.
The main focus of suspicion for investigators is that the commercial documentation was not registered in the name of the head of the Chief of Staff or his wife, Bettina Angeletti. Instead, the invoice was issued in the name of Giosela Kocsis, a regular state employee who serves as the official’s most trusted private secretary in the Government House.
Given this finding, the federal judge Ariel Lijo ordered a formal request for the selling company to urgently send all receipts linked to the transaction. Justice seeks to determine through these measures of evidence who contributed the funds, under what payment method the debt was paid and what was the final delivery address of the merchandise, under the firm hypothesis that the secretary’s name was used to hide a sumptuous expense that the couple could not justify.
This episode is incorporated into the criminal case in which the main spokesperson for Casa Rosada is accused of the alleged crime of illicit enrichment. and falsification of public documents. The file, driven by the evidentiary measures of federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita, analyzes a disproportionate asset growth that judicial analysts classify as incompatible with the income declared by the official since his arrival in public office.
In parallel to the control of household expenses in the gated community Indio Cuá Golf Club, the prosecutor’s office is also investigating severe inconsistencies in the sworn statements modified by Adorni, real estate purchases, expensive family trips abroad paid in cash and alleged financial operations with cryptocurrencies not declared on time to the control bodies.
Adorni’s political and judicial situation is experiencing its most dramatic hours after the television interview he gave to journalist José del Rio on the Mesa Chica program on LN+ last week. In that media space, the libertarian official rehearsed a public defense that, far from calming the waters, deepened the institutional crisis around him.
The splinters of his own statements had a full impact on the Casa Rosada, unleashing a wave of rumors about his imminent resignation from office, a possibility that the coordinator of ministers himself admitted to having evaluated by confessing verbatim that he thought about stepping aside due to the pain that the tenor of the accusations caused him. The millionaire purchase linked to the circle of the libertarian official, revealed by LN+ journalists, adds to the controversy that keeps him cornered.
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