The news shook the Judiciary. Intruders had entered the office where the Judicial Council saves the sworn statements of 11 thousand judges and opened 24 envelopes with privileged and sensitive information of these officials. The scandal that frightens those affected was publicly known a month after the fact, caused anger and forced changes. In the corridors of Courts nobody doubts that it was a mafia message, the unknown is who made it and why.
ISSUE. After the long weekend of June 20, the workers of the administration of the Judicial Power of the Nation They noticed an anomaly in the Sarmiento building at 800. They found that the office where the reserved sworn statements of all federal judges in the country were kept had been violated. and inside her, 24 magistrate envelopes and secretaries had been opened. In addition, they discovered that the security cameras were not working.
The employees warned the president of the Judicial Council, Horacio Rosatti, who contacted each of the 24 affected officials. However, the other directors were not notified: “We found out through the media,” he protested. Paul Tonelli.
That is why they requested an urgent meeting, which was held on Tuesday the 12th, and there they proposed some changes that are already being carried out. For example, moving files to datacentre, a fireproof place. “The safest that the Council has,” they say.
In addition, they intervened the office where the crime occurred and promise to investigate who is responsible. The greatest danger, judicial sources confess, is that they will not be able to quantify the damage of what happened: those who have accessed that information have bank account numbers, credit cards, investments and even data on relatives of the magistrates. They could use it at any time and for any purpose.
