Overview
- Bacigalupo, testifying Thursday in the Buenos Aires corruption trial tied to Oscar Centeno’s notes, said he kept a sealed box for up to 14 months and that reporter Diego Cabot opened it at his home before making copies, and the court later suspended the hearing to resume Tuesday.
- He told judges he never handled the notebooks and said Cabot then gave photocopies to federal prosecutor Carlos Stornelli, a step that set off the high-profile case in 2018.
- Defense lawyers pressed him on why he chose a journalist over police after prosecutors tried to narrow that line of questioning, and he answered that he lacked proof to file a complaint.
- He described Stornelli arriving at his apartment and driving him to Comodoro Py to testify, adding that Judge Claudio Bonadio thanked him and called his statement the cherry on the cake of his life.
- A separate case continues to review the notebooks’ integrity after a forensic report requested by businessman Armando Losón flagged amendments, erasures and overwriting in several volumes.