The United States Justice is one step away from becoming a new headache for the deputy and libertarian candidate José Luis Espert. The US authorities reported that on February 1, 2020, the politician received a 200,000 dollar turn from Antonio “Fred” Machado, which is still stopped waiting to be extradited to North American territory, accused of money laundering, fraud and drug trafficking. In social networks a viral video was disseminated, edited by the repentant account of Milei, in which the economist thanks the “entrepreneur” Rionegrino for his support in the 2019 campaign.
The leader Juan recordois I filed a criminal complaint to demonstrate the economic link between the current head of the Budget Commission of the Lower House and the Argentine businessman detained since April 16, 2021, accused of integrating “a conspiracy to produce and distribute cocaine”. A very complicated scenario for Espert, headed by the Buenos Aires list of National Legislators of Libertad advances for the general elections that will take place on October 26.
“From the documentation submitted as a reliable and direct evidence by the Eastern Texas Prosecutor’s Office, during the trial against the organization dedicated to drug trafficking composed of Mercer -erwin and Machado, a payment made by these dangerous criminals to Espet was taken,” says the complaint to which he accessed profile, detailing: “According to the secret accounting of the organization found by the investigators. of the payroll of people linked under the complicit cover ”.
Machado faces fraud and money laundering charges, which already resulted in a 16 -year prison sentence against his exsocia Debora Lynn Mercer-Erwin, within the international criminal structure. For months, the Supreme Court of Justice is resolving on the extradition request carried out by the US government for the same case. At the moment, Machado meets house arrest in his hometown.
The journalist Sebastián Lacunza revealed, after an extensive investigation in the Eldiarioar portal, that the Machado pact included a SECT request for 5 million dollars. It was after a meeting in March 2019 at the San Fernando airport. Two years later, in May 2021, journalist Rodis Recalt demonstrated in News that the connection included the use of a private JET registration N28M, which belonged to the defendant. The alleged drug trafficker also supported the liberal leader with money and overlapping him in a Grand Cherokee truck.
In the judicial presentation of Grabois, you can see the curious patrimonial evolution of sister since they met. “The sister’s patrimonial evolution before the Anti -Corruption Office between the years 2021 and 2024 reinforces that presumption”, because “according to its sworn statements, Espert increased its assets by more than 230 million pesos in just two fiscal exercises, from 29,489,019 pesos in 2022 to 261,965,406 in 2024,” said the letter.
The data provided in this complaint allow us to understand a plot that crushed first in Central America and then sought to be reissued in Argentina. The lawyer Francisco Oneto, who also represents President Javier Milei in the Libra case, is the employer’s attorney. A curiosity, since the lawyer two years ago was a candidate for Buenos Aires vice -governor with the support of the same spert.
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