While assembling the puzzle of charges of his government, Javier Milei asked only for an official: he wanted to locate in a place of transcendence to Diego Spagnolo, his friend and former lawyer. He put it in the National Disability Agency, at the end of 2023. Now, the president’s ultra -confidence official is the protagonist of a scandal that exposes them.
I talked to the president and said: ‘They are dripping, you can make the boludo, but do not throw this bundle to me. There is a quilombo and do not take care of me, I have all Karina the WhatsApps “. This is just one of the phrases in a series of audios that spread the streaming channel Carnival with the alleged Voice of Diego Spagnuolo. A conversation in which he reveals An alleged network of illegal collection of money in the purchase and sale of medicines.
In the recordings, the voice awarded to Spagnuolo confirms that pharmaceutical laboratories must make economic contributions to guarantee their contracts with the State. With the name and surname, in addition, the bosses of the collection chain are pointed out: Karina Milei and Eduardo “Lule” Menem in articulation with the drugstore Argentine Swiss, the person in charge – according to the audios – to ask for money from the suppliers and “upload it Presidency“.
His former lawyer was several times news. Very few for a good one, being the last accusation that Marlene Spesso, mother of a 12 -year -old boy who has autism, about the abuse that would have dispensed them in a meeting. That round trip climbed to the center of a national debate -which the president himself, which pointed to the child and spoke of a “Kirchnerist operation” -, and Spagnolo, again, was raised in the eye of the storm.
The libertarian met Spagnolo, like so many others -as for example Victoria Villarruel -through networks. The now official was an active user on Twitter, who at that time appeared under a pseudonym, shared the violence and virulence that always characterized the current president. Spagnolo gave time and attention, to someone who stood out precisely for having been exempt from this containment throughout his life. By the time the freedom was armed in the city of Buenos Aires, at the start of 2021, Milei convinced Spagnolo to join the adventure. Perhaps it was more out of necessity than for something else: at that time, in which the red circle and the bulk of journalism – among those who did not tell this magazine – looked at the libertarians as little more than one joke, they themselves cost them to fill the lists. The lawyer ended in the 11th place of the ballot to deputies, a more symbolic position than anything else.
However, the context in which Milei deepened his relationship with Spagnolo could be taken, with Monday’s diary, as a notice of what would come. It was in November 2021, when the libertarian was days to assume as a national deputy. At that time the economist had initiated a civil demand for journalists Fabián Doman, Martín Candalaft, Paulo Vilouta and Debora For a million pesos to each one, after they made a parallel between Nazism and the sayings of Milei -“we are aesthetically and morally superiors, shit left -handed” -. Spagnolo had a gesture that captivated Milei: he promised to take care of the defense of economist ad honorem, just charging the costs that the judicial process had. Especially that “heroic” action captivated Karina, who was always reluctant to spend a single more weight.
Spagnolo defended Milei in that trial – independent to which Milei would do, already as president, Carlos Pagni, Ari Lijalad and Viviana Canosa – and in others. One of them was the first pyramid scam that the libertarian promoted, “Coin X”, in 2022, another anticipation that the story sometimes repeats. The link came to such an extent that when Milei won the elections he looked for a place to give his friend. And the verb is not accidental: Spagnolo, who had only had a fleeting step through the world of health in the municipality of Pilar. There he advised Carlos Kambourian – who has a confirmed processing in second instance for embezzlement at the Garrahan hospital – in that portfolio. After that, the lawyer has no other scroll or credential that explains why he came to the position he is. Unless, as the caste was before, being a friend of the leader grants benefits and privileges.
