For years, the Kovalivker knew how to walk through the world of state contractors without making noise. Low profile, millionaire businesses, the occasional eccentric gesture – such as collecting ferraris and porches – but nothing to take them out of that category of Argentine entrepreneurs from the health sector. Today, history is another. Eduardo, Jonathan and Emmanuel are in the center of a cause that already dirties their reputation and that drags Karina Milei, sister of the president and key piece of the government without remedy.
History. At the head of the Swiss drugstore Argentina Sa is Jonathan, the eldest son. He is the one who signs, decides and appears in the institutional photos. The father, Eduardo, maintains the share control and a figure that combines that of the chemical engineer with that of the writer with philosophical veleities and the Bon Vivant that walks through Europe in classic cars. Emmanuel, the youngest, covers the rest. The three handle a network of companies that is supported on the pharmaceutical business. Among others, there are log in Farma, JK Health Consulting, LBA Farma, Unicred, Il Cavallino (a luxury car concessionaire with the name of Italian stable), RS events and CRT entrepreneurship, a construction company. Of vaccines to Ferraris, through credits, catering and bricks: the menu is wide and, until recently, undisputed.
In 2025, the Holding Star was Swiss Argentina, which won the medication logistics of the Ministry of Health in three of the four major contracts at stake. The amount? More than 78 billion pesos. He won the powerful Logistics Company Andreani and the Argentine Correo. In the halls of the sector there was talk of “the great play” of the Kovalivker. And even the most ambitious. So much so that it represented its greatest contract of the year with the State.
Luxury. While business volume grew, the standard of living also increased. Eduardo Kovalivker does not hide his passion for the Ferrari: he has classic models – a 275 of 1964, for example – and also modern. In Punta del Este, its “Granaderos” farm is forced for long and quiet summers. There are books, golf and engines. In his social networks he can see him walking in one of his ferraris – a classic red – while participating in a return in the city of Castello in the province of Perugia. The classic car event was called “Quattro Rotro per un a sorriso”, which translated means four wheels by a smile.
Your children are not far behind. They live in Nordelta, Pilotean helicopters, assemble author houses and make author cuisine. They are not characters from the show, but they appear where they have to appear. Charity dinners, cultural presentations, car exhibitions. Always well dressed, always well surrounded. Jonathan is passionate about luxury cars as his father, but, to differentiate himself, he does not collect Ferraris, but Porsches. He has even participated in car races, where he got to make a podium.
The Kovalivker’s life changed with a finding. The cause that began by the audios of the former director of the National Disability Agency, Diego Spagnuolo, resulted in his homes. The city police entered the house of Jonathan and Emmanuel and found some surprises. In the case of Emmanuel, in fraganti caught him, moving for Nordelta in his car with 266 thousand dollars and 7 million pesos in different envelopes. The image did not close with the story of impeccable businessmen. Since then, Justice investigates whether that money is part of a parallel circuit. There are no firm accusations against the Kovalivker, but open questions. Many. In the case of Jonathan, they did not find him at home, but the police detected the trail of their open security box and with elastic bands, known as Liguitas, frequently used to tie money.
The scandal shot with a series of audios where the name of Karina Milei is mentioned. The voice that speaks is that of the aforementioned Spagnuolo, which suggests a 3 percent commission for the president’s sister in state hiring. In these exchanges the Argentine Swiss drugstore is mentioned.
The Kovalivker deny having paid coimas. They appeared before justice, delivered cell phones and are already represented in the file by lawyer Martín Magram. The cause already looks beyond them. It puts under the magnifying contracts signed with the ministries that Patricia Bullrich and Luis Petri, reviews linked societies and investigates, above all, the link between a private company and the power of the day. The same power that promised not to repeat the practices of before.
Until recently, the surname Kovalivker was synonymous with medications, luxury cars and even erotic literature. Now it is also added bad money and coimas of 3 percent. Eduardo, the father, is the only one who until the closing of this edition had not been presented in the file and remains published posts linked to poetry in his social networks.
Justice wants to know if the contracts they won were clean. If the group’s growth was only merit or if there was extra help.
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