Socialist deputy Esteban Paulón issued a stern warning about the functioning of the judiciary in relation to corruption cases involving the national government. He claimed that the businessman was warned 'from within Migrations and the PSA' that an arrest warrant would be issued against him while he was making a stopover in Tucumán. 'He arrived late in Buenos Aires, delayed his arrival, and when he entered, nobody controlled anything,' he recounted. For the lawmaker, this confirms a scheme where 'power facilitates the cover-up' of those involved in corruption plots. Paulón also stated that 'power ultimately functions to cover up not only the facts of corruption, but also the protagonists.' He mentioned the case of businessman Mastro Pietro, allegedly linked to money laundering in the Andis case. He asserted that today 'it depends on the draw which court you get: a case can advance or it can sleep,' referring to the contrast between the rapid progress of the ANDIS file and the stagnation of the investigation into the Libra case, linked to cryptocurrency operations. Paulón detailed that the Andis case, which investigates alleged overpricing and kickbacks in the National Disability Agency, achieved significant progress in a few months: 'Evidence was preserved, a corruption network was determined that is more or less clear, which we all assume always operates that way.' To this he added episodes linked to the Ministry of Petovelo, where 'international cooperation resources were used to pay dollar bonuses.' Later, the agencies argued that the alert 'came too late.' The deputy, in an interview on Splendid AM 990, accessed by the Argentine News Agency, emphasized that the Executive Branch holds the central information: 'There is a question that the investigating commission could not answer because the President has to answer it: who gave him the 47-digit alphanumeric code' necessary to execute the cryptocurrency operation. According to Paulón, the head of state 'evidently does not want' to give that data and the Justice system has not summoned him either, even though 'with an expert examination of his devices everything could be resolved.' A 'conceptual matrix' based on parallel fundraising The socialist lawmaker went further and pointed out that the facts under investigation are not isolated cases, but part of what he defined as the 'conceptual matrix of the political project of La Libertad Avanza'.
