Overview

• By unanimous vote, the Council of the Magistrature’s Plenary suspended the Mar del Plata federal judge and referred him to the Jurado de Enjuiciamiento for possible removal.
• Poderti is accused of appropriating 144 gold coins seized in a 2017 narcotics case when he served as secretary at Juzgado Federal N°2 de San Isidro.
• Investigators cite Banco Nación San Isidro records showing 19 accesses to safety‑deposit box 8‑44, for which Poderti held the only key, with some visits not justified in the case file.
• Separately, he is prosecuted for malversación de caudales públicos with a 190‑million‑peso embargo, and the case is at oral trial before TOF N°3 de San Martín.
• The missing coins came to light during restitution to Roberto Tamborini after his 2023 acquittal, and authorities later searched Poderti’s office, car and apartment; he denies wrongdoing.