Overview
- Judge Sebastián Casanello filed a separate criminal complaint and ordered testimonies extracted over the failed seizure of Sergio Mastropietro’s cellphone at Aeroparque.
- Security footage cited in the filing shows Mastropietro exiting the restricted area at 22:34, being intercepted outside, handing his backpack to companions, briefly returning, and passing a small object to them before the phone could be found.
- PSA and the National Directorate of Migrations offered conflicting accounts of why the requisa was delayed, raising questions about coordination and potential noncompliance.
- Mastropietro arrived on a private flight from Fort Lauderdale that made technical stops in Guayaquil and Tucumán, where he placed a call whose recipient has not been identified.
- Prosecutors describe Mastropietro as a key financial operator in the alleged ANDIS scheme, linking him to Baires Fly invoices for “purchase of national kilometers” issued to preferred drug suppliers as a purported laundering mechanism.