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ANDIS Procurement Probe Enters Courtroom Phase With Interrogations and First Arrest

Prosecutors describe a rigged PACBI purchasing system that funneled tens of billions of pesos to favored drugstores.

Overview

  • Questionings begin today in Comodoro Py, with businessman Miguel Ángel Calvete scheduled to be the first to appear before Judge Sebastián Casanello.
  • Urologist Pablo Atchabahian, identified by the fiscalía as a central external operator, was detained in Mendoza and placed under house arrest after declining to testify.
  • Former ANDIS chief Diego Spagnuolo is cited to appear on Wednesday and ex–access director Daniel Garbellini on Thursday, within a roster of 15 indagatorias running through early December.
  • Prosecutor Franco Picardi alleges a structured scheme between December 2023 and October 2025 that used restricted bids and SIIPFIS manipulation to preselect suppliers, with Profarma and Génesis taking over 93% of awards in analyzed processes.
  • Evidence cited includes chats, notebooks, security footage and financial flows, with examples of extreme overpricing (such as Macitentan jumping from $411,764 to $8,290,000 per unit) and alleged fund movements toward aviation firms Baires Jets and Baires Fly; other suspects remain free under travel and reporting restrictions.