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Federal Raids Hit ANDIS and Suizo Argentina as Bribery Probe Seizes Cash and Spagnuolo’s Phone

Court-ordered forensics now drive the case, increasing pressure on an administration seeking distance from the allegations.

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Overview

  • Judge Sebastián Casanello, acting on a request from prosecutor Franco Picardi, ordered 14–15 searches at ANDIS, Suizo Argentina and private residences, seizing phones, computers and procurement files under secrecy of sumario.
  • Police located former ANDIS chief Diego Spagnuolo in Pilar, seized his cellphone for analysis and did not detain him.
  • During a Nordelta operation linked to Suizo Argentina, officers confiscated envelopes with roughly US$240,000–266,000 and several million pesos, along with a passport and a phone from executive Emmanuel Kovalivker.
  • The Executive intervened ANDIS for 180 days, appointed Alejandro Vilches as interventor and removed additional agency officials as audits proceed.
  • The audios that triggered the case name Karina Milei and Eduardo “Lule” Menem; Chief of Cabinet Guillermo Francos questioned the recordings and denied that President Milei was informed, while opposition figures pressed for answers.