Overview
- Federal investigators in Gualeguaychú ordered urgent searches in Unit 9’s Pabellón E, seizing phones, notes, documents and cocaine for forensic analysis.
- Judicial sources attribute the scheme to detained rural businessman Leonardo Airaldi, who is due to face oral trial on February 24 with a large witness list.
- According to testimony, about US$40,000 was offered to a Uruguayan hitman, with attacks allegedly timed to supposed Uruguay vacations that the officials did not have planned.
- Protection measures were activated for Judge Leandro Ríos and prosecutor José Ignacio Candioti, as Supreme Court president Horacio Rosatti coordinated security contacts.
- Some outlets report provincial security minister Néstor Roncaglia was also named as a target, while the federal probe continues to examine seized devices and potential accomplices.