Overview
- Sala II of the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber annulled Judge Sebastián Casanello’s order and instructed him to impose immediate, less onerous safeguards.
- Judges Martín Irurzun, Eduardo Farah, and Roberto Boico held that restricting only Atchabahian was no longer proportional compared with the treatment of other suspects.
- Atchabahian had been the sole detainee in the case, confined at his home in Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, after declining to testify on November 14.
- Prosecutors contend he informally directed procurement decisions and pricing at the disability agency despite holding no formal post.
- The chamber previously ordered an inquiry into the origin of audios attributed to former ANDIS head Diego Spagnuolo, while alleged lobbyist Miguel Ángel Calvete remains jailed in a separate matter.