Buenos Aires, November 22, 2025 – Total News Agency-TNA-The detained political-business operator Miguel Ángel Calvete is spending his days at the Central Penitentiary Hospital of the Ezeiza prison complex, as justice advances on the case linking him to the National Disability Agency (ANDIS) and calls into question the power structure linked to the government of Javier Milei.
According to judicial sources, notebooks, spreadsheets with money movements, and notes that link drug suppliers, public contracts, and the government's electorate were found there.
His own family appears implicated in the network: his daughter Ornella Calvete, who until her resignation after the scandal was the National Director of Regional and Sectoral Development of the Ministry of Economy, resigned after $700,000 in cash was found during a raid on her home.
Calvete, a 60-year-old lawyer and former spokesperson for the Chinese supermarket chain, was detained on October 9 after two investigations in which he was the main figure converged into one: the case for the exploitation of foreign prostitution—for which he had already been condemned since 2019 to four years in prison—and the file for bribes at ANDIS, in which he had been designated as a "key piece" by prosecutor Franco Picardi.
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According to the prosecution's ruling, Calvete acted as a central but external intermediary in the gear of targeted purchases for the agency, building a network of companies—including Indecomm S.R.L. and Profarma—and managing operators with internal access to the medical supplies acquisition system.
Calvete's connection to the traditional business-political universe and his alleged influence over a sensitive agency like ANDIS complicates the official discourse and forces a redefinition of controls and executive appointments.
In this context, Calvete's imprisonment in the prison hospital, far from being a simple judicial consequence, has become a symbol of a crisis that combines prostitution, pharmacies, public tenders, and party ties.
Furthermore, his sister is listed as an official linked to the same ministry, which accentuates the political dimension of the operation.
The judicial file being handled by Federal Judge Sebastián Casanello includes among its main accusations the steering of tenders from ANDIS, purchases from pharmacies contracted without technical backing, and Calvete's participation as an operator without an official position but with direct interference.
The outbreak of this case means a tough test for the government of Javier Milei, which boasted of an anti-corruption agenda.
This precedent reinforces the long-term dimension of the network to which it must now face.
His entry into Cambiemos in 2015 allowed him to participate in meetings with prominent leaders such as Rodríguez Larreta, Vidal, and Bullrich, while continuing to attend Macri government meetings even as a councilor in La Matanza.
The San Telmo house where Calvete lived became the scene of one of the most revealing judicial findings: converted into a supposed "cultural center" with reinforced security, cameras, and a visible safe, it was raided as part of the ANDIS case.
