Overview
- Interventor Alejandro Vilches and the Health Ministry sent technical reports to the courts documenting repeated procurement failures at the Agencia Nacional de Discapacidad (ANDIS).
- The audits say some purchases cost up to 1,972% more than comparable public buys, and they identify suppliers that billed the State more than 25 billion pesos in combined invoices.
- Investigators flagged concrete accounting errors including at least one invoice paid twice and an internal audit that reported a 158 billion peso shortfall in the disability area.
- Prosecutors have processed former director Diego Spagnuolo and 18 others and the federal prosecutor Franco Picardi is advancing a hypothesis that kickbacks steered contracts to favored suppliers.
- Reports document service failures that harmed beneficiaries, including a prosthesis recorded as delivered to a Río Negro patient that officials found had never arrived, and the government has installed a new interventor to tighten controls.