Politics Economy Local 2026-04-13T14:12:37+00:00

Investigation into Head of Cabinet Manuel Adorni

A judicial investigation into Head of Cabinet Manuel Adorni for alleged illicit enrichment. The prosecutor's office is examining his financial operations, including large real estate purchases and private mortgage loans, calling key figures, including a notary and former property owners, to testify.


Investigation into Head of Cabinet Manuel Adorni

In parallel, the prosecutor and judge Ariel Lijoya moved to lift the tax and banking secrecy of Adorni and his wife to contrast their real financial situation with the registered operations. Another testimony that caused a stir was that of notary Adriana Mónica Nechevenko, who intervened in the deeds and testified before the prosecutor's office last week. They sold (and financed with a private mortgage for about USD 200,000) the apartment in Caballito (Miró street at 500) that Adorni and his wife bought in November 2025. Federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita called to testify as witnesses Graciela Isabel Molina de Cancio and Victoria María José Cancio, mother and daughter, named in the file as the women who granted the Head of Cabinet a private mortgage of USD 100,000 for a real estate operation that Justice is watching with growing attention. Last week, former footballer Hugo Morales also testified via Zoom, who had been the original owner of one of the properties under investigation before selling it to the women who later ended up linked to the operation with Adorni. Among them is also the contractor who worked on the house of Indio Cuá, because the file no longer only looks at the acquisition of real estate, but also the works and improvements that may have increased the family's assets. Politically, the problem for Adorni is that the case has stopped revolving solely around media speculation and has begun to advance with concrete acts of proof. The notary herself said that it was she who introduced Adorni to the women who lent him the USD 100,000. The case has been steadily adding pieces. Therefore, the appearance of Graciela Molina de Cancio and Victoria Cancio is a formality. The file also reviews the purchase of the Caballito apartment, recorded for USD 230,000, a figure that various publications compared with market values higher for similar units in the area. Even a real estate company that intervened in the operation stated before Justice that the property was originally offered for USD 340,000, a fact that further deepened suspicions about the finally declared price. This temporal discrepancy was one of the factors that pushed new measures of proof. According to the investigation, Molina de Cancio would have contributed USD 85,000 and Victoria Cancio another USD 15,000 for a 'non-bank' mortgage linked to the apartment on Asamblea street, a previous property of Adorni and Bettina Angeletti. In addition, the prosecutor's office ordered raids on branches of the real estate company that intervened in the sale of the Caballito apartment and called other witnesses to reconstruct the complete circuit of purchase, financing, and renovations. The point under analysis is not minor.