Overview
- The owner of a house in Fincas de Iraola II told prosecutors on Wednesday that Juan País, the uncle of Manuel Adorni, paid $12,000 in cash to cover a year’s rent for Adorni’s mother.
- The rent was negotiated at $1,100 per month and the $12,000 payment was made up front, a fact that drew investigators’ attention to the operation’s size and modality.
- Federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita took the witness statement and formally requested documents from the country’s administration, including expense receipts and other payment records.
- Judge Ariel Lijó ordered that Adorni cannot leave Argentina without judicial authorization, a preventive measure that precedes possible calls to testify formally.
- Investigators will now cross the cash payment against the family’s sworn asset declarations and bank and property records, since Argentine probes often use dollar cash flows and real‑estate documents to trace undeclared wealth.