Libra Case: They demand the seizure of the cell phones of Javier Milei, Karina Milei and Manuel Adorni
It has been almost two weeks since President Javier Milei announced the cryptocurrency $Libra , which generated an international scandal, for which he was charged with possible crimes of fraud, influence peddling and abuse of authority. After demanding the seizure of the cell phones of the head of state, the secretary of the presidency, Karina Milei, and the spokesman, Manuel Adorni, one of the complaining lawyers, Gregorio Dalbon points out that the case is moving forward " slowly."
The request for the seizure of the smartphones of the president and his officials was made this Wednesday. The objective is to have them examined and to safeguard the evidence they might contain. “Given the institutional gravity of the case, it is requested that the necessary means be taken to ensure the correct chain of custody of the seized items,” indicates the submitted document. The case is being handled by the National Criminal and Correctional Federal Prosecutor's Office 3 , headed by Eduardo Taiano , who must decide whether or not to grant the request.
“The case is proceeding very slowly , with very simple measures for such a complex case,” Dalbon said when asked by PERFIL about the progress of the investigation. Despite the president’s indictment and the multiple complaints, in the last few hours, part of the funds stored in $Libra were transferred to other virtual wallets , also known in the crypto world as “wallets.”
“One of the wallets of the team associated with the launch of $Libra moved part of the money (4.5 M dollars) 'from Argentina' to a new wallet. It is the first time we have seen movements since February 14 ,” warned cryptocurrency specialist Fernando Molina on X, who spoke before Congress yesterday. Speed in a case of these characteristics is essential to protect the object of the process and the evidence.
The court document requests that the phones be seized "for the purposes of conducting a comprehensive investigation of the communications, applications and digital files that may be related to the facts under investigation." Among the reasons are the conversations that the president, his sister and the spokesman allegedly had with Mauricio Novelli and Hayen Davis , who are allegedly involved in the development of $Libra.
However, beyond these conversations, Dalbon believes that the crime that Javier Milei would have committed was confessed by the president himself in the interview he gave with Jonatan Viale . From that point of view, he indicated that the prosecution will have “no choice but to call him to testify in an investigation ”, although he does not believe in the speed and effectiveness of the evidence measures that are ordered until then.
“ I have never seen such brutality in the confession of a crime. In the interview with Viale, Milei confesses and commits the crime when he states that he did not promote, but rather spread a business between private parties. That is incompatible with public office and violates the law of public ethics,” Dalbon explained. On the other hand, regarding the accusations of fraud, Milei will not only be investigated in Argentina but also in the United States where complaints have already been filed with the Department of Justice.
Meanwhile, prosecutor Taiano ordered the expansion of the intervention of the Specialized Prosecution Unit on Cybercrime of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Nation to collaborate in the preservation and recovery of evidence. He also requested reports from public and private organizations linked to the "subject", while new proceedings are being evaluated.
The $Libra case and the investigation in CongressWithin the framework of the extrajudicial investigations into the $Libra scandal, a meeting was held on Tuesday at the Communications and Information Technology Commission of the Chamber of Deputies with technology specialists on the use of cryptocurrencies and the prevention of fraud. Deputies from Unión por la Patria, the Civic Coalition and the Left Front participated in the event.
Among the speakers was programmer and communicator Maximiliano Firtman, who said: “The facts with $Libra are clear. In the first moments when the tweets came out, everyone believed that the president's account had been hacked, including his entourage, which shows that everyone understood that there was financial fraud and that the tweet should not have been there.”
Firtman also questioned the context in which Javier Milei's publication took place. “There is an epidemic of Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, crypto scams, financial frauds. Social networks are a necessary part everywhere, because they start there.” He added that “there are international organizations that are dedicated to financial fraud , which in this case reached the president. It is the same case as that of 'La China' from San Pedro.” The scam in the Buenos Aires town of San Pedro happened last year and had 90 thousand people as victims.
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Meanwhile, cryptocurrency journalist Emilce Garzón highlighted that behind the presidential tweet that promoted a memecoin as a project to finance companies “there was a group of kids who don't know about the subject” but believed because “promises were made to them in a context of ponzidemia .”
“This is not a scam because the price goes up or down, that is the market. This is a scam, we can assume, because there are players who used privileged information and because there are a series of transactions that occur in unison, at the same time as the president's tweet, which take advantage of small investors who enter later, seduced by the public communication of the tweet. These whales, we presume operated by Hayden Mark Davis and his partners, then sold their holdings in $Libra to keep crypto dollars or solana tokens that have more liquidity than Libra,” added Santiago Siri, president of The Democracy of Fundation.
Siri also differentiated the characteristics of a promotion as opposed to a broadcast. “The elements that differentiate a promotion from a broadcast are: if there is a call to action, that is, a link, a crypto address; if there is non-neutral language, harangue, non-neutrality, and if the promoter obtains some economic benefit,” she listed and noted that those three elements would tend to indicate that there was a promotion .
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