The audios are two, one of seven second and the other of nine. And in principle they do not reveal much, but they are afraid not because of what Karina Milei says in them, but because of the mafia message they contain: there was someone who was recording the most powerful person in the government, the president’s sister, in her very office of the Casa Rosada. Someone who decided to keep that material for a long time and just filter the media a few days after the elections. With the aggravating fact that more recordings may appear at any time, on accused, with the obvious end of slowly bleeding the ruling party.
Let us review what the Secretary General of the Presidency says in the clandestine recordings that are known so far: that internal clashes must be avoided between the libertarian troop (“we have to be united”) and that in the Casa Rosada everything passes through it: “I enter at eight in the morning and go to eleven at night.” The first of the phrases is, however, the key to trying to decipher who was talking with, that is, who was recording her without her consent, perhaps with a technique as simple as putting “play” to the cell phone recorder. Because, due to the listening ambient noise, it seems clear that the audios were recorded in these conditions and not, for example, with a long distance microphone from those used by intelligence agents. No: it was simply someone who sat with her and took the opportunity to record her.
And who is it? In the Government they handle an explosive hypothesis: they point against Diego Spagnuolo, the head of the National Disability Agency (Andis) that in the primary audios of this scandal in chapters affirmed before an unknown interlocutor that the presidential sister remained with coimas of up to 800 thousand dollars per month, the famous 3 percent raised among the pharmacists. In those recordings that initiated the affair, Spagnuolo also states that he warned the president – until his friend – about that modus operandi, without obtaining a satisfactory response. The man tells something else: that he went to talk to Karina on the subject and that she claimed in hard terms her criticisms of “Lule” Menem, the alleged illegal collector. “He told me: ‘Lule’ is me,” says Spagnuolo in the audios.
Recapitulating: Spagnuolo was with Karina in her office in the Casa Rosada, and she told her to end her with the inmates … Doesn’t it look like the new audios in which the sister asks that there are no more fights? Was that talk that recorded Spagnuolo?
In the most intimate environment of Javier Milei they also suspect that it was Spagnuolo himself who spread his own audios, in which he appears talking about the sister’s bribes. Maybe, they say, he even recorded them. A way of covering and having evidence at hand in case they decided to release their hand?
The president is furious with his former friend and personal lawyer, one of the officials who visited him most times in the fifth of Olivos. He tried to send him emissaries to fix the situation and dissuade him to go to justice and the media. But Spagnuolo, again and again, closed the doors. And then Milei exploded in public: he tried to a liar and said he would take him to court. The lawyer, they tell very close, would be worth that threat to take advantage of the figure of the “repentant” and collaborate with the investigation in return an improvement in their procedural situation.
Everything can happen. The Milei brothers panicked. When will the next recordings appear?
