Overview
- Police executed five search warrants in Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata that resulted in the seizure of US$367,110 found between a private home and a bank safe‑deposit box that a judge ordered closed.
- The probe began after a TANDANOR internal audit and a company complaint uncovered irregularities, and the federal judge assigned the case to the PFA’s anti‑corruption unit for criminal investigation.
- Investigators also confiscated bank extracts, contracts, letters, a handwritten receipt and multiple electronic devices that will be forensically examined to trace payments and communications.
- At least two people were formally imputated following the raids, and media and judicial sources identify former TANDANOR commercial manager Julio Eduardo Gallé and businessman Antonio Alejandro Napoleone as central figures in the alleged $200,000 payoff scheme.
- The case is formally caratulated as cohecho and is likely to increase institutional scrutiny of TANDANOR’s contracts and financial controls given the shipyard’s strategic role under the Defense Ministry.