An expert report on Martín Insaurralde's assets has been reactivated in the Yategate case.

The federal court has reactivated the accounting expert report to determine whether Martín Insaurralde , former mayor of Lomas de Zamora and former chief of staff to Axel Kicillof, was illicitly enriched in the case in which he is being investigated for his luxury trip in October 2023 to Marbella, Spain, on a yacht with model Sofía Clerici.

Judicial sources informed Clarín that federal judge Luis Armella has ordered that work to move forward and has asked all parties to the case to indicate which aspects they wish to be examined and to designate their own experts to intervene.

The decision came after a ruling by the Federal Court of Criminal Cassation last month that established that the official experts who must intervene are the officials of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and not those of the Faculty of Economics of the UBA as had been ordered by the previous judge of the case, Ernesto Kreplak , which was severely questioned by the Prosecutor's Office because it deviated from what the law establishes.

This unblocked the expert report, which still has no date, pending all parties—the Prosecutor's Office, the Citizen Power complaint, and the defense—reporting what they want analyzed.

The investigation will seek to determine whether Insaurralde's assets and expenses are justified by his income. If the answer is no, the court will be able to move forward with the request for an investigation filed by federal prosecutors Sergio Mola and Diego Velasco against the former official for illicit enrichment and money laundering, as well as against five other individuals.

The case began in October 2023 when the trip that Insaurralde, then Chief of Staff of Kicillof's Buenos Aires government, took to Marbella with Clerici on the yacht " Bandido " became public. There, they were seen in photos drinking champagne and carrying luxury handbags. The trip took place in the midst of the presidential election campaign that year, and the prosecutors' investigation revealed that it cost 41,087.65 euros and 8,189.30 dollars.

Due to the controversy surrounding the case, Insaurralde resigned from his post, and a judicial investigation was launched. Prosecutors Mola and Velasco, heads of the Office of the Prosecutor for Economic Crime and Money Laundering (PROCELAC), concluded that Insaurralde cannot justify his assets based on his income as a public official.

The indictment indicated that he owns two lots in the Fincas de San Vicente Club de Chacras gated community, where he built a house measuring 841.76 square meters (2,000 square feet) and a 73.40-square-meter pool; a house in Lomas de Zamora; two luxury cars; a bank account worth 8,620,967 pesos between 2011 and 2021; and he made 75 trips abroad for $71,280.40, only one of which was official.

"If we were to consider his salaries for his performance as a public official for the years 2021-2023, the total amount would not reach ARS 20 million. This manifestly contradicts the expenses detected for international trips he participated in in 2023, which would have a minimum of USD 82,882.4 million," the Prosecutor's Office had stated in its indictment requesting the investigation.

Prosecutors also accused Insaurralde's ex-wife, Carolina Álvarez, two of his sons, Martín and Rodrigo Insaurralde , his nephew, Gastón Barrachina , and Víctor Donadío , who was a contractor for the Municipality of Lomas de Zamora and whose brother was married to Insaurralde's sister, of being alleged front men for the former official.

Insaurralde made a presentation in which he sought to justify his assets. He said his standard of living was due to the income of his ex-wife, model and host Jesica Cirio . The former official also claimed that his ex-partner had donated $200,000 to him.

Cirio and Clerici were investigated but ultimately not charged. €600,000 was found in Clerici's home, which the woman said she never declared to the AFIP (Federal Administration of Public Prosecutors) because it was the proceeds of her work as an "escort," a category that is not eligible for tax returns.

Insaurralde's properties were also raided. One of them, an apartment in Puerto Madero where he lived with Cirio, was owned by the company Revilier SA, owned by Andrés Galera, who was convicted of being a front man for former Secretary of Public Works José López .

Following presentations by the Prosecutor's Office and the defense, an expert appraisal was ordered. Judge Kreplak, acting as the deputy for the federal court in Lomas de Zamora, where the case is being heard, conducted the appraisal, with the intervention of experts from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

This was challenged by the Prosecutor's Office because the judge deviated from the rules that establish that they must be official experts and that the Supreme Court has its own body of accountants to perform this work. The fight over which professionals intervened lasted almost a year until the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the prosecutors last month.

Now, Armella, a federal judge in Quilmes who oversees the Lomas de Zamora court, has ordered a new expert appraisal to determine whether Insaurralde was illicitly enriched.