“People don’t hate journalists enough”Javier Milei complained. The “cryptogate” would not have existed without the investigations that place the Argentine president and his sister Karina in the Scam center with digital asset. Milei called the press professionals to ask for “forgiveness” for “the giant mountain of lies, slander and insults that usually say daily. “The presidential fury has not prevented the head of ministers, Guillermo Francoswas questioned long hours last Tuesday in the Chamber of Deputies by the scandal of $LIBRA. Francos contradicted more than one occasion but the ultra -right considers it an intrepid: he put the body in the name of a government that refused to appear in Congress the headlines of the portfolios of justice and economy, Mariano Cúneo Libarona and Luis Caputo, respectively.
Francos said that Milei “Does not maintain or maintain any link with the Freedom and/or the Libra currency project. “But with the passage of time and the flood of questions he admitted that the meetings that the president held between September 20, 2024 and January 30, 2025 with businessmen from the world of cryptocurrencies, including Mauricio Novelli, the American Hayden Davis and Julian Peh, a native of Singapore, are central protagonists of the “Cryptogate.” Davis was photographed happily with the president Before the scandal exploded. The digital asset went from called “Long live the freedom” to $ Libra, the name of a scam to thousands of savers for some 100 million dollars.
“In these opportunities he talked about how decentralized technologies and blockchange They could help to promote the business of digital entrepreneurs, “Franks said about meetings.
Uncomfortable questions
The opposition deputy Sabrina Selva recalled that it has been shown that Milei tweeted on February 14 22 seconds after the code that put $ Libra was created. “He was the first person in the world.” The television outsourum then erased his message in X. From that moment on, a career of denials began that they did nothing more than increasing suspicions to the point of harming him in opinion surveys. “Who gave the president specifically the contract number he advertised?”, The legislator Itai Hagman wanted to know. Francos refrained from offering concrete answers. In addition, he made a lit defense of the honorability of Karina Milei, general secretary of the Presidency and the access key to the capitalist anarch of the protagonists of the scam, according to the media.
The head of ministers referred to corruption cases during the previous governments when the deputies claimed details. The deputy of Centrodécha Margarita Stolbizer took the floor: “We have just had one of the most explicit demonstrations of what it is The political and moral degradation of Argentina: The chief of staff who speaks of the other government was part of that government. “ “Nerve”the Peronist deputy (opposition), Germán Martínez. The president of the Chamber, Martín Menem, caught attention to the legislator for his “lack of respect.”
The Investigative Commission
In parallel, the “cryptogate” investigative commission that formed in despite the opposite efforts of the government met. The first dispute between its members has not been resolved and has to do with the party that will preside over that parliamentary instance. Menem has not renounced the effort to place in that strategic place to The official deputy Nadia Márquez, involved in a cause for fraud.
According to Hugo Alonada Mon, columnist of the newspaper La Nación, Márquez “He faced a criminal case for issuing trout (false) titles in two tertiary institutions of the province (Patagonian) of Neuquén, between 1999 and 2004: journalism courses at the International Christian Institute and in an alleged university that lacked the official accreditations required. “The judicial investigation” began when some of the affected students detected the disability of their titles and went to the courts. condemned not to fulfill the sanction in exchange for certain conditions that may include, in addition to the admission of responsibility, the performance of social tasks and repair of the damage. A monthly delivery of liters of milk to a non -governmental organization that fights addictions for almost three years.
