Overview
- Investigative questioning opened today in Comodoro Py with businessman Miguel Ángel Calvete brought in to testify before Judge Sebastián Casanello and prosecutor Franco Picardi.
- Fifteen former officials and private actors were summoned through early December, with ex-ANDIS chief Diego Spagnuolo scheduled for Wednesday and ex-official Pablo Atchabahian already detained under house arrest after refusing to testify.
- Authorities seized about US$700,000 in an address tied to the Calvete family, and Economy Ministry official Ornella Calvete resigned following the discovery.
- The fiscal brief says Profarma and Génesis captured over 93% of awards in 21 restricted tenders totaling about ARS 30.3 billion, with extreme price gaps such as Macitentan rising from ARS 411,764 to ARS 8,290,000 within days.
- Evidence cited includes chats, three seized phones and handwritten notebooks from Calvete, plus financial traces that prosecutors say link operators and four droguerías to tens of billions of pesos in irregular contracts and money movements involving Baires Jets and Baires Fly.