The federal judge Ariel Lijo lifted banking, financial and fiscal secrecy on the chief of staff, Manuel Adorniinvestigated for alleged illicit enrichment.
The measure also reaches Bettina Angeletti, the official’s wifeand the firm AS Innovación Profesional, owned by the two of them. The lifting had been requested by the prosecutor Gerardo Pollicitawhich is in charge of the criminal investigation. The objective is to “accurately reconstruct the patrimonial, economic and financial evolution” of Adorni and his wife.
The measure also seeks – the prosecutor stated in his request – to “verify the origin” of the funds they managed, “contrast the information from the sworn statements”, review their purchases and consumption, and “establish whether these find support in income, traceable and consistent with their externalized economic capacity.”
Lijo He also ordered the lifting of tax secrecy regarding women who appear as Adorni’s lenders or creditors.
The prosecutor wants to know if they had the economic and financial capacity to assume these roles. The list of people whose movements will be investigated includes: Silvia Pais, Norma Zuccolo, Beatriz Viegas, Claudia Bibiana Sbabo, Graciela Molina and Victoria María José Cancio.
Pollicita reported that she was requesting the measures that affect Adorni and his wife after analyzing “the elements already incorporated” in the case; among them, registry reports, deeds, sworn asset statements and testimonial statements. Yesterday and today declared the clerk Adriana Nechevenko; Before, the former soccer player had testified Hugo Morales first owner of the Caballito apartment where the Adornis live.
Pollicita asked that the secret about the Chief of Staff and Angeletti be lifted from January 1, 2022to make “a correct reconstruction of the assets of those appointed prior to Manuel Adorni’s entry into public office, as well as to examine, with the necessary temporal breadth, the asset variations recorded before and after that milestone.”
Once the secret was lifted, Pollicita reported that it would move forward with new measures: it has already requested that the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic report – from January 1, 2022 to the present – all bank accounts, financial products, cards, savings accounts, safe deposit boxes, current accounts, fixed terms, credits, loans and other records that exist or have existed in the name of Adorni, Angeletti, the firm MasBe (Angeletti’s coaching consultancy) with the details of all the operations that they have registered”.
Also, that possible links between them be reported “with virtual or digital walletspayment accounts, CVU, aliases and other instruments or platforms included in the National Payment System regime, individualizing the payment service providers and any other intervening firm.
The list of movements that the prosecutor wants to be informed of is very long. It includes, for example, “the details of income and expenses, transfers issued and received, cash deposits, constitution and cancellation of fixed terms, loans taken or granted, card summaries and any other operation that may be of importance for the investigation, with identification of origin and destination accounts, counterparty, date, amount and concept.”
In parallel with what is derived from the lifting of tax secrecy, Pollicita He demanded that ARCA send him the information it has about Adorni, Angeletti and MasBe, from January 1, 2022, and “full copy of the sworn declarations submitted for income and personal property taxes, with their complete forms, annexes, work papers, presentation acknowledgments, asset openings and possible amendments.”
Also any information of a labor or pension nature that you have about them and what they have invoiced.
Regarding the women who appear as creditors of Adorni and his wife, Pollicita requested that, once the tax secrecy is lifted, ARCA provides all the patrimonial and economic information “that is necessary.” to establish whether they had economic capacity compatible with mutual funds, credits and/or mortgage guarantees that arise from the documentation gathered in the records.” He listed, among other issues, the tax affidavits presented, the declared income, the goods and assets and “all other evidence useful to verify the effective existence, magnitude and economic support of the debts and financing linked, among others, with the operations” related to the properties on Miró Street (the apartment that Adorni bought in Caballito), on Assembly Avenue (his previous apartment, which he mortgaged November 15, 2025) and lot 380 in the Indio Cua neighborhood, where the house that Angeletti bought that same day is located.
Regarding that country, Pollicita ordered that the administration be required to report “how it was canceled the entry fee for the sum of US$5000″ which, the prosecutor reveals in his presentation, was paid on November 30, 2024, two weeks after the purchase of the house.
The prosecutor’s office also requested information on whether there were suspicious transaction reports (ROS) regarding those investigated in this case.
Pollicita He also investigates the trips of Adorni and his wife, and has in his possession information about the return flight of the Chief of Staff and Angeletti, from the United States to Argentina, when she accompanied him on his official trip.
Angeletti paid US$5,154.55, something similar to what he had said Adorni when he tried to justify his wife’s trip. The two flew with Delta and did not do it in economy class: he traveled in seat 1G and she, in 1C.
His flight appears as booked by “Jefatura.gob.ar”, with the mark of “official mission”, reported sources with access to the case. It came out to $4,910.35.
The two had traveled, on the way, on the official plane with the president Javier Mileiwho left New York before the Chief of Staff and flew to Chile for the inauguration of José Kast. Adorni stayed in the United States, where Argentina Week was taking place. His wife accompanied him.
When his wife’s trip became known and criticism from the opposition multiplied, Adorni tried to justify her presence. He gave an interview to A24 saying that he was “falling apart” in New York and that he wanted to have his “life partner” by his side. He claimed that this did not cost the State anything and confirmed that he shared with him the luxury hotel where the presidential delegation settled. He also said that she helped him on the trip (he did not specify whether it was professional help) and that he had an “activity” to carry out in New York, although he did not say which one. Angeletti presents herself as an “ontological and life coach.”
“My wife was going to travel to New York. In fact, I already had a ticket purchased for February 26 for US$5,348,” Adorni said in that interview. “But then there was a change in the trip: from New York I passed through Miami and I wanted him to accompany me,” he said then.
The couple’s return from the United States was on March 14, on flight DL 115, which left at 10:25 p.m. and arrived in Ezeiza at 10:15 a.m. the next day. It was a direct flight, without stops.
Adorni’s ticket was issued on February 24. He didn’t check suitcases. As for Angeletti, the ticket was issued on February 25 and she checked in two suitcases.
