The Government is in shock: at the Casa Rosada, no one knows what Diego Spagnuolo can say or what documents he has.

The government went into a sort of hibernation yesterday, when the scandal unleashed by the revelation of audio recordings in which Diego Spagnuolo, former head of the National Agency for Disability (ANDIS), gave details of a corruption scheme surrounding the purchase of medicines for the state accelerated in ways it never imagined.
In these audio recordings—whose origin is still unknown —Spagnuolo implicates Karina Milei , Secretary General of the Presidency, and Eduardo “Lule” Menem , Undersecretary of Institutional Management of the Government, as beneficiaries of alleged bribes from the Suizo Argentina drugstore and other companies in the sector.
It's impossible for a scandal to reach higher than those names in the power pyramid : Karina is the President's sister, and Lule is his right-hand woman and a cousin of the head of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem. Javier Milei himself is also mentioned in the audio , when Spagnuolo says he himself warned the President about the bribes he saw taking place in his office.
On Friday night, after several hours of meetings looking for a way out of the scandal, an official at the Casa Rosada told Clarín : “ The truth is, we're not going to say anything because we don't know what Spagnuolo might do . We don't know what he has or what he's going to say . We don't know if he's going to testify in court or not. Until we know what he's going to do, we can't do anything .”
Milei's closest team doesn't maintain direct contact with the former official, but they do exchange messages through a lawyer who knows the President and Spagnuolo . "We have contact through a third party, but he doesn't tell us what he's going to do," explains the same advisor.
Spagnuolo isn't just any former official. He was Milei's lawyer and is also one of the people who has been closest to the President in recent years .
The lawyer has dozens of registered visits to Quinta de Olivos and has participated in numerous evenings at the presidential residence's micro-cinema . On Sundays, Milei often invites some of his friends to listen to opera, and then they stay for dinner in the dining room of the presidential villa. Spagnuolo is practically the only national official who has accessed such levels of presidential intimacy .
Although the judicial investigation is very new and none of the individuals involved have yet been charged, Spagnuolo could plead guilty as a collaborating defendant, which would alleviate his judicial situation, although he would have to admit his participation in a crime.
The Casa Rosada fears that new developments will emerge that will outpace even the speed of the judicial investigation . They don't know if there aren't more audio recordings of Spagnuolo, and last night the government was talking about the possibility of a video emerging that would reveal more details about the scandal.
In addition to Spagnuolo's statement, the government fears the information that may emerge from the former official's cell phone , which was seized by the courts. Spagnuolo once said he had saved "Karina's chats," referring to the President's sister.
Obtaining the phone's contents could take some time, because Spagnuolo didn't give federal prosecutor Franco Picardi's agents the keys to access its contents. However, no one knows if the former presidential lawyer has copies of that content in his possession. In the world of libertarian officials, recordings of conversations are commonplace . That's why the official fears make sense .
Clarin