Overview
- Federal prosecutor Franco Picardi denied the Kovalivker motion to annul or close the case, leaving Judge Sebastián Casanello to decide the investigation’s next steps.
- The probe traces alleged bribe flows in disability-medicine purchases, with raids, device seizures, and requests to lift fiscal and banking secrecy and obtain complete invoicing from Spagnuolo, Garbellini and Suizo Argentina.
- Coalición Cívica lawmakers Hernán Reyes and Marcela Campagnoli asked the Presidency to suspend or review 13–14 pre-adjudicated processes involving Suizo Argentina worth about 8.8 billion pesos.
- Former ANDIS head Diego Spagnuolo now has public defender Florencia Plazas after prior lawyers resigned, and the court has enabled his defense’s access to the file.
- Investigators seek to corroborate the contested audios through financial evidence, with reports of cash found in a safety deposit box and testimony from Fernando Cerimedo, and a separate raid gathered Osprera records on dealings with Suizo Argentina.