It is always close to power. In one of the images that accompany this note, for example, he appears taking a photo on the Boca court to the former Bolivian president Evo Moralesone of the many political contacts of his agenda. Is called Franco Bindi, He has a bold reputation and is a known lawyer in the corridors of Comodoro Py, where stories about him have been built based on truths and also in mere assumptions.
Today, that 40 -year -old lawyer is indicated by the government as responsible for having recorded the audios of Diego Spagnuolo, in which the owner of the National Disability Agency He speaks of coimas in his area of up to 800 thousand dollars a month, who would go to the hands of the president’s sister, Karina Milei. The recordings, apparently, were made without Spagnuolo realizing, and dating almost a year ago. In the Casa Rosada they not only point Bindi for allegedly making the recordings, but also for disseminating them as a media entrepreneur that it is. Your partner, the deputy Marcela Pagano, that separated from the libertarian block for the same hours when the scandal grew, would be a regular source of streaming of Jorge Rial in which the audios were revealed a week ago.
In the surroundings of Bindi and Pagano they deny the accusations. The employer in private says he never met with Spagnuolo. Another of the suspects, Fernando Cerimedoconsultant close to the Digital Communication area of the Government and husband of one of the disability directors that resigned last November, the accusations were also separated.
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In April 2023, the lawyer became the owner of a multimedia that has a television signal called Channel 4 Extra, of a broadcaster to which they baptized extra radio and the news portal business.com.ar. All means that, at first glance, seem to point to Kirchner audiences.
The television license was granted in 2022 to a company called Mariv Media Partnersof which Bindi had 90 percent of the shares, while its partners were Manuel Marvaso and Antonio Rivarola with 5% each. Marvaso owns a radio and a portal called Eco Media and Rivarola is a producer of audiovisual content and previously worked as an employee in Aerolineas Argentinas.
For Channel 4 Extra, he achieved the hiring of the journalist and football rapporteur Víctor Hugo Morales, who until March 2023 worked in C5N. The presence of Victor Hugo played a double role for Bindi. He had a weight figure for Kirchnerism.
Another controversial character who accompanied Bindi is the Cordoba Tomás Méndez, With its well -known ADN cycle. Méndez, who had a brief step by Radio del Plata. Méndez looked a strong relationship with Bindi before the pandemic, in the hottest years of the judicial news that had two milestones in 2018 and 2019: the Cuadernos cause and the call “D’Alessio case.”
For those years, Carlos Stornelli, The prosecutor of the Cuadernos cause, suspected that the “d’Alessio case” had been motorized by Bindi, which had a client to Pedro Etchebest, the agricultural businessman who had denounced that he had wanted to extort in the name of Stornelli. The protagonist of that story was a false lawyer named Marcelo D’Alessio that he had told Etchebest that he was involved in the Cuadernos cause and that if he paid he could get him to take him out of the file. For those stumbling blocks, D’Alessio is still imprisoned.
The media coverage of the “D’Alessio case” had a special epicenter in the Méndez program in C5N. That television show, in those years, also had the frequent presence of Giselle RoblesBindi’s partner in her lawyer studio, so life now gets again. Robles also used the Méndez program to accuse former Valijero Leonardo Fariña that his testimonies in justice had been scripted. That television venetta was because Fariña fought with her lawyers who, just were Robles and Bindi.
Radio. The FM of the Bindi Group was launched at frequency 107.5, directed by actor Fernando “Coco” Sily, who also had his program every morning.
The studies were assembled in Palermo, where Radiovisión people worked in the past, which Bindi also led after an agreement with Atlantis Editorial to use the brand. In those days the rumor of Bindi’s friendship had emerged with the media Luciana Salazar After they were talking throughout the night at the party of the characters of the year of people in 2021. It was even suspected that Bindi was the source of some tweets with political information that Salazar wrote.
Bindi had a brief step through the General Syndicate of the Nation (Sigen) I commanded Alessandra Minnicelli, The former minister’s wife Julio de Vido, And also by the Ministry of Security in the years of Aníbal Fernández, back at the beginning of Kirchnerism. He was a friend of Miriam Quiroga, The presidency employee who said to be a lover of Nestor Kirchner. And he also had a relationship with Florence Kirchner, with whom he said he had shared a romance.
From those first steps in the public function, while studying law, he went to work for his father’s lawyers and began to weave relations with the world of intelligence. One of his friends, in full Nisman case, was Allan Bogadothe false intelligence agent that Alberto Nisman He pointed out as the link between the Iranians and the Argentine government.
Among Bindi’s famous customers were Lázaro Báez and Leonardo Fariñawith whom he ended up enemy. She is a lawyer for the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA in Argentina and her link with that country could be greater than she imagines. He mentioned it as one of the lawyers who helped the crew of the Iranian Venezuelan plane who were stranded in Ezeiza. He always denied those links, like a news that emerged from Paraguay when it was mentioned that he had arrived in that country along with an agent of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin). He usually explains that it was a coincidence that he traveled with that person on that same plane and to reinforce the idea, he repeats that Javier Milei was also on the flight and that he did not linked to the economist.
Bindi is a friend of the former president of Bolivia Evo Morales, whom he housed in a house of his property, in Martínez, for almost a year. For that favor the affection of Morales won. This is why every time Argentina visits, Morales always is accompanied by Bindi. In July 2022 he followed him closely for La Bombonera, and in March 2023 they traveled together in Rosario, Puerto Madryn, Neuquén, Chaco, Salta and Jujuy. Bindi always very close to Morales. Taking photos, at times guarding it and also accompanying it in important meetings and personal entertainment. He showed himself as someone more relevant than a simple advisor, and was.
Stain. In 2013, Bindi was a fugitive from justice in a cause for the illegal exit of a minor of the country and an interpol order was issued, which was then discharged. In that case, his reputation is always a surprise for those who greet him for the first time, because when they enter his name in the Google search engine, the information about Interpol’s fugitive search appears. For that episode he was in Brazil, a country with which there is no extradition treaty.
Other countries that have gone were Venezuela, on several occasions for work; Bolivia, by Evo Morales; Mexico and the United States, for vacations and tourism; And he also has a trip to the Seychelles Islands. This place is not known why it was. His longest stay outside the country was in Venezuela, where he remained for four months. Bindi’s landing in the media is an enigma from the economic point of view. According to channel sources, money would be yours and still does not have an abundant public and private guideline to face the costs involved in investment in infrastructure, technology and the cachet of the figures.
Anyway, it is a personal bet because the lawyer was always interested in the media. He now owns a news channel and a radio. And the government looks at him with distrust.
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