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House linked to Argentine political scandal belonged to ex-VP

A Buenos Aires house at the center of an alleged abuse scandal once belonged to Argentina's former vice president. Two other defendants in a separate case also met there.


House linked to Argentine political scandal belonged to ex-VP

Buenos Aires, November 20 (NA) – The house in the San Telmo neighborhood where Diego Spagnuolo and Miguel Ángel Calvete, two of the accused in the ANDIS case, used to meet, belonged to the ex-boyfriend and alleged 'provider' of Melody Rakauskas, the complainant against the mayor of La Matanza, Fernando Espinoza, for alleged sexual abuse. He, in turn, claimed to have bought it from former Vice President Amado Boudou.

Three years ago, Rakauskas stated in an interview: 'A few days after meeting him (then boyfriend Gustavo Cilia) and seeing one of his houses in San Telmo, with a strange colonial style and lots of bars and security features, I told him, 'You have bars even on the roof,' and he replied, 'Do you know who I bought it from? From Boudou.'

It has now been revealed that the house referred to by the alleged victim of Espinoza is the same one where Spagnuolo and Calvete met, according to the Argentine News Agency (Agencia Noticias Argentinas).

In August, Spagnuolo visited Calvete's residence on Defensa Street, and security camera footage shows him arriving with a backpack over his shoulder.