The corruption investigation at the National Disability Agency (ANDIS) has exposed a complex scheme of irregular public fund management and a parallel money laundering system. In this scheme, prosecutor Franco Picardi focuses on Sergio Daniel Mastropietro, an aviation businessman and partner of Fred Machado—the controversial financier of José Luis Espert who will be tried in the U.S. According to the investigation, on September 10, 2025, Calvete sent Mastropietro five files with multi-million bank transfers to that firm's account. Bank statement screenshots, published by journalist Camila Dolabjian on her social networks, confirm these fund movements totaling hundreds of millions of pesos, originating from pharmacies favored by ANDIS contracts, including Prolite Orthopedics S.R.L. After receiving the transactions, Mastropietro sent invoices from Baires Fly S.A. to the same pharmacies for identical amounts, under the uniform concept of 'purchase of national kilometers to be used in company aircraft'. The investigation also pointed to suggestive links with the province of Río Negro. The owner of Baires Fly is Luis Grande, a former pilot of the Río Negro government, a province where deputy Lorena Villaverde is also from—accused of ties to possible drug trafficker Fred Machado—and where Machado himself had strong roots. The prosecution considered that Mastropietro's role, in Calvete's inner circle, consolidated the economic circuit that allowed converting diverted public funds into assets with a legitimate appearance. The corporate structure was strengthened in 2018 when Mastropietro created the firm MEGASTATICA S.A.S. This description was considered by the prosecution as functional to operations aimed at disguising the origin and destination of the money, which fits a pattern compatible with 'possible asset laundering maneuvers'. Links with Spagnuolo and the 'Clan' of Río Negro. The former head of ANDIS, Diego Spagnuolo, was close to José Luis Espert, and the investigation verified that he visited Mastropietro twice at his private home in Altos de Campo Grande during 2025. Both visits coincided with almost simultaneous deposits by Calvete and his partner, Guadalupe Ariana Muñoz, administrator of the cash funds. The most concrete evidence of Mastropietro's financial participation came from his link with Baires Fly S.A., a private aviation company. The registered address of that company coincided with the address of INDECOMM S.R.L., another firm linked to Calvete. The fiscal report, as learned by the Argentine News Agency, suggests that Mastropietro's role focused on the 'movement, administration and possible legitimization of the sums obtained by the group led by Miguel Ángel Calvete', identified as a state operator with ties to officials, including the former head of ANDIS, Diego Spagnuolo. The evidence of the multi-million transfers. The most concrete proof of Mastropietro's financial participation arose from his link with Baires Fly S.A., a private aviation company. The registered address of that company coincided with the address of INDECOMM S.R.L., another society linked to Calvete. The origin of the money that reached Mastropietro was traced to the maneuvers perpetrated at ANDIS through the purchase of medicines and high-cost supplies through directed tenders and with overpricing, where a small group of drugstores concentrated most of the adjudications for amounts exceeding $30,000 million.
