Overview

• Judge Zunilda Niremperger’s July 21 order removed banking and tax confidentiality for Pastor Jorge Ledesma in the federal investigation led by Prosecutor Patricio Sabadini.
• Investigators have requested information from ARCA, the Financial Intelligence Unit, the Resistencia municipality and Chaco’s provincial infrastructure ministry to trace the church’s funds.
• Authorities are probing potential money laundering, undisclosed dollar holdings and the church’s failure to file financial statements since 2016.
• The inquiry covers funding sources and true construction costs of the 15,000-seat Portal del Cielo megatemple inaugurated on July 5 with President Javier Milei.
• Sabadini has questioned Ledesma’s miraculous peso-to-dollar conversion claim and is gathering evidence ahead of formal charges.