Overview

• An official DATIP report indicates the iPhone Spagnuolo handed over showed first activity the day before a search and that WhatsApp was reinstalled without restoring prior chats.
• Prosecutor Franco Picardi formally set the investigation window from December 2023 to August 2025, focusing on whether drugstores, including Suizo Argentina, handled improper payments to officials.
• With secrecy lifted, the prosecutor incorporated the media-leaked recording that triggered the case and additional audios attributed to Spagnuolo into the judicial file.
• Suizo Argentina’s owners sought to void the case and asked for an urgent acoustic and biometric analysis to authenticate the recording and detect edits, a motion pending before Judge Sebastián Casanello after the prosecutor’s review.
• Spagnuolo was assigned a public defender, and prosecutors requested records on movements in his safe-deposit box as part of ongoing financial checks.