Overview
- The multi‑day “Cafayate Fantasy” wedding, which held its ceremony Monday, March 23 in La Punilla inside the Quebrada de las Conchas, took place in a protected reserve that requires specific environmental authorization.
- Environment Secretary Alejandro Aldazábal said the permit shown by organizers was fake, pointing to spelling mistakes, a format unlike official acts, and a signature he says was digitally pasted rather than signed by hand.
- Aldazábal filed a criminal complaint for forgery on Monday through the web system, and prosecutor Sandra Rojas is tracing who created and used the document in what she called a case that made state controls look “in ridicule.”
- Rojas detailed that police who reached the site were handed a PDF said to be a permit and, lacking a way to verify it with the Environment office in real time, left while the event continued.
- Both a criminal probe and an administrative case are open, with the latter potentially carrying a multimillion‑peso fine, while the bride and the landowner deny wrongdoing and media scrutiny of political ties prompted a public denial of involvement from Martín Menem.