Overview
- On Monday the federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita asked Judge Ariel Lijo for authorization to open a sealed envelope with private keys and to order forensic tests on eight bitcoin addresses tied to Manuel Adorni.
- Adorni’s defense provided a September notarial act and the sealed keys, saying the eight addresses were used between 2014 and 2018 and yielded about USD 591,544 that were later converted to cash.
- Pollicita proposed a staged technical procedure in which the defense’s expert signs messages from each address using wallet software and the Policía Federal Argentina performs a cryptographic verification while the keys remain in the defense’s custody.
- The prosecutor also asked to widen the probe into Adorni and his wife’s past finances, seeking ANSES work histories, ARCA tax records, property and vehicle registries, and an extended lifting of fiscal secrecy to test the defense’s claim of prior family savings.
- If the wallet verifications and the fiscal and registry checks do not confirm the defense’s timeline, prosecutors say the results could lead to a formal indagatoria for suspected illicit enrichment because the notarial act only shows current control, not ownership at the time of the historical movements.