The former official Ornella Calvetewho served as national director for regional and sectoral development The country’s Ministry of Economy refused this Friday to testify as part of the Andis case, which is investigating a suspected bribery network surrounding this organization.
The judge Sebastian Casanello had ordered a new round of investigative statements on the Andis case for this Friday, which also included Ornella Calvete.
Calvete was national director for regional and sectoral development and resigned from her position last November after the scandal reached her father. Miguel Calvetecharged as an alleged connection between the driver Andis Diego Spagnuoloand drugstores.
At the beginning of December, the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires had revoked an order of Judge Casanello and ordered him to deepen the opinion on the origin and authenticity of the audio recordings with which a case was initiated for alleged corruption in Andis.
In the verdict, signed by the maids Martin Irurzun And Roberto Boico And Eduardo Farah In contradiction to this, it was pointed out that the circumstances under which the recordings attributed to Spagnuolo were obtained had not yet been proven.
How the “Calvete clan” controlled ANDIS: fired officials and their connections
The research on National Disability Agency (ANDIS) Under the leadership of Diego Spagnuolo, great news has been added in the last few days.
Most of the names that appear in the information that Federal Prosecutor Franco Picardiwhich is investigating further specific evidence seized in the recent operations that led to the businessman’s arrest Miguel Calvete and the doctor Pablo Atchabahian in Mendoza they would come from a single cell phone.
This is the document that the former director of access to health services of ANDIS handed over to the Picardi prosecutor’s office Daniel Garbellini when the investigation into the audio recordings of the former director of this organization began Diego Spagnuolowhich, according to Spagnuolo’s new defender, are false and created with AI.
The arrest of the businessman Miguel Angel Calvetewho was described by the prosecutor in the case as the “parastatal leader of the organization” and that of the urologist-doctor Pablo Atchabahianwho is examined as one of the heads in the purchasing and tendering processes of Medicines and prostheses within various agencies of the nation state, including ANDIS, are the keys in this corporate network that connects state agencies like that ANDIS and the Production Coordination Secretariat of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MECON) with the private sector.
Relatives, officials and the “Calvete clan” in the crosshairs of the justice system
This is a surprise for researchers Calvete had three members of his family working in the state in the production coordination secretariat responsible for Pablo Lavigne: your daughter Ornella Calvetehis sister Susana Calvete and his son-in-law Javier Cardini. All three were forced to resign last week, dealing a major blow to the party’s structure MECON responsible for Luis Caputo.
According to ElDiarioAr, based on the documentary evidence in the power of justice, lawyer Calvete acted as an intermediary for the alleged bribes and his sister Susana, who was legal advisor to the Production Coordination Secretariat, was part of his structure; his daughter Ornella, who was national director for regional and sectoral development; and his son-in-law Javier Cardini, who was Undersecretary for Productive Management of that ministry.
The big question is who initially appointed Calvete’s relatives, who have been working in this government since January 2024, to the dissolved Ministry of Industry Esteban Marzoratti (now in the National Customs Directorate) and then under the command of Pablo Lavignean economist who was part of the technical teams of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and which was led by the former economics minister Hernan Lacunza.
Some sources close to the government point to the former chief of staff Nicolas Posse and the current director of Banco Nación Gonzalo Pascual as those who assembled the technical teams that would accompany the new government, apart from many professionals worked with since 2021 Javier Milei and naming unknown individuals as members of the “Calvete clan.”
Last week, Lavigne He removed three of those involved from his area. Those around him claim that he has not done business with any of the three and that he met Cardini when he took office in December 2023.
During these almost two years of government, Lavigne had distinguished himself from his predecessor in the Ministry of Internal Trade. Matias Tombolinibecause suspicion of alleged corruption did not fall on him and his predecessor Marzoratti revoked the controversial import permits issued under the law SIRA designed by the former economics minister Sergio Massapunctuated by several acts of corruption, particularly the way official dollars were granted for the purchase BCRA to pay for imports that in some cases were not made, such as medicines and pharmaceuticals.
But all the tasks that the so-called “Calvete clan” had carried out within the state failed when a raid took place in the department of Puerto Madero last September Ornella CalveteJustice found $700,000 in cash, which the former official could not justify. Calvete’s daughter and her partner were present during this raid Javier Cardini.
According to the documents available in the case investigated by the prosecutor, Ornella Calvete notified his father, Miguel Angel Calveteabout the presence of police on the ground floor of his house on September 12, 2025.
In a message he expressed: “I don’t know if it’s the knee head or what.”. During the greeting, the former official pointed out that it was a false alarm, although the conversation continued to revolve around stickers and personal jokes. In the same dialogue, the father advised him to follow instructions and addressed questions related to the company’s financial situation. INDECOM and the availability of “white money”.
The prosecutor’s opinion, which he agreed with iProfessional describes that in this conversation Miguel Angel Calvete He suggested what they should answer if they asked him about the money: “If you come in here and see me with a Mossca” or “I say someone lent it to me, forget it.”
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