Overview

• On Friday, Federal Judge Sebastián Casanello denied the Kovalivker family’s bid to void the ANDIS procurement investigation linked to Suizo Argentina.
• The ruling affirms that recordings made by a participant can legitimately trigger an inquiry and notes the audios are not the case’s sole evidence.
• Arguments about illicit or adulterated tapes and res judicata from a prior archived file were rejected, in line with prosecutor Franco Picardi’s position.
• Prosecutors are analyzing hundreds of contracts from December 2023 to August 2025 and have broadened the focus to other drugstores and potential payments to public officials, with press reports citing sums above 55,000 million pesos.
• The case remains in a preliminary phase under sections of secrecy, the leaked audios attributed to ex-ANDIS chief Diego Spagnuolo being the starting point, and the defense can appeal to the Federal Chamber.