Overview
- Prosecutor Franco Picardi asked Judge Ariel Lijo to summon former ANDIS chief Diego Spagnuolo to provide an undisputed voice sample for a court comparison with the disputed recordings.
- The request follows Lijo’s order for a forensic exam of the audios to be run by the National Gendarmerie’s criminalistics lab, with possible support from the DATIP technical unit.
- Experts will check for edits and synthetic voice, extract file metadata, and assess if the segments match a real human voice and can be attributed to Spagnuolo.
- Defense teams say the recordings were obtained illegally and seek to void the probe under the “fruit of the poisonous tree” doctrine, which makes the authenticity finding crucial.
- The investigation alleges a scheme that steered drug and supply contracts in the Incluir Salud program through the SIIPFIS procurement system to favored firms, naming Spagnuolo, Miguel Ángel Calvete and Suizo Argentina among the accused.