Overview
- Contractor Matías Tabar testified Monday at the Comodoro Py federal courts that Manuel Adorni paid US$245,000 in cash without invoices for extensive renovations at an Indio Cuá property, and he handed over videos and detailed expense sheets.
- Judge Ariel Lijo ordered a forensic review of the contractor’s phone after it was surrendered, and investigators added videos and images of the works to the case file.
- Adorni’s team rejected the stated sums as inflated and said they will seek technical appraisals to challenge the valuations, while the file also includes a claim of cash-paid carpentry for his Caballito apartment.
- Following the testimony, Vice President Victoria Villarruel posted “cascada de éxitos” on X in a jab widely read as referencing the reported decorative cascade, and Senator Patricia Bullrich urged Adorni to file an updated asset declaration at once.
- President Javier Milei defended Adorni on television, saying he would not “execute an innocent,” signaling the administration’s intent to stand by the chief of cabinet as the investigation advances.