Overview
- Prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita has asked the Federal Police cybercrime unit to answer 29 specific questions as part of a formal forensic audit of the eight Bitcoin addresses linked to Manuel Adorni.
- The request follows a Friday verification in which Adorni’s lawyers used private keys to sign a court-generated challenge and police technicians confirmed the signatures and that the eight addresses and 41 movements match the defense’s account.
- The audit will examine whether the wallets were custodial or self‑custodied, whether a single person made the 41 moves, and whether external records such as exchange logs or IP data can identify who controlled the keys when the transactions occurred.
- In parallel, Pollicita ordered patrimonial probes including reconstruction of Adorni’s and his wife’s income histories and lifting fiscal secrecy to test the claim that roughly $591,544 came from crypto sales kept in cash at home.
- If the technical and financial reports cannot link past control of the wallets to Adorni, the prosecutor may decide to seek an indagatory hearing or to close parts of the case depending on what the evidence shows.