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Deleted Messages on Ex-ANDIS Chief’s Phone Deemed Unrecoverable as Secrecy Order Is Extended

Forensic limits are forcing investigators to shift to other devices under a new 10-day secrecy order.

Overview

  • Court-appointed experts from DATIP told Judge Sebastián Casanello and prosecutor Franco Picardi that the content erased from Diego Spagnuolo’s primary phone cannot be retrieved due to the method used to delete it.
  • Specialists imaged the device and reported no material relevant to the bribery probe, noting numerous deleted chats, including conversations with President Javier Milei and presidential secretary Karina Milei.
  • A modern handset seized from Suizo Argentina co-owner Emmanuel Kovalivker remains inaccessible without a passcode, and extractions scheduled for phones belonging to Eduardo and Jonathan Kovalivker and Daniel Garbellini are proceeding with limited expectations.
  • The court prolonged the secreto de sumario for ten additional business days, keeping defendants and other parties from accessing the case file.
  • Defense counsel for the Kovalivker family petitioned to nullify the case and invoked cosa juzgada over a prior closed inquiry into Suizo Argentina’s ANDIS contracts, with formal responses now pending before the judge.