It is not one of the most remembered episodes, but these days the sitcom The Big Bang Theory is playing loudly in Argentina. No, it is not about a rerun on some television network, it is about the multiple similes that some are detecting between the synopsis of chapter 9 of the eleventh season with l, the chief of staff of the Argentine president is giving to justify a life at full speed with a monthly salary of less than 3,000 dollars, the purchase of a ranch in a luxurious villa and another home, as well as the trips taken with his family in first class.
Under the title of The bitcoin messthis episode places doctors and engineers Sheldon, Leonard, Rajesh and Howard in search of a flash drive forgotten place where 7 years ago they deposited bitcoins that they mined when that cryptocurrency had not skyrocketed its price to the current exorbitant levels. Adorni, investigated for illicit enrichment, has assured that everything was the result of having half a million dollars undeclared, but that it was capital prior to being Milei’s right-hand man.
How can it be possible? According to the new statements that Adorni has presented, because he kept cryptocurrencies, specifically bitcoin, worth half a million dollars. It is the great headline that leaves the failure to fulfill another promise, the same one he made during his statement in the Argentine Congress, in which in addition to receiving the support of a Milei who cheered him on from the guest box as if it were a soccer match, he assured that everything his family had appeared in the sworn statements and that “there was never any concealment.”
“We save in black, like the majority of Argentines”
Manuel Adorni, chief of staff of the Argentine president
This Wednesday, in a television interview, he sought the empathy of society by embracing one of the issues that the Milei Government has most criticized during the times of Peronism and Kirchnerism: “We save in black, like the majority of Argentines.” But it was not the only thing that Adorni has embraced. While the tenant of the Casa Rosada assured that his chief of staff would give all the explanations, he – and his wife, Bettina Angeletti – ended up adhering to the benefits of a rule created by that same ultra-liberal Government, the so-called Tax Innocence Law.
This is a legal figure that allows you to avoid the obligation to explain a possible increase in assets or a kind of tax amnesty that opens the door to incorporating dollars that had not been declared. To get an idea, in the statements he presented when he entered the libertarian Executive, Adorni’s savings made up a total of $24,000. The day before yesterday, that figure increased with the appearance of $506,000, supposedly, in these cryptocurrencies.
The questions that hover over Adorni and the newspaper archive in which he stated that he would not buy bitcoins
It should be noted that Adorni is already going through three difficult months, in which he has tried to overcome some scandals that were multiplying in the press. First the trip to New York in which his wife accompanied him in the entourage and set off alarm bells, then the information about the purchase of a ranch, worth $230,000 through two retired ladies who left him $200,000 in that operation. However, this new turn, which comes after he assured that he would only show the reserved annex of his statement “by court order”, has landed with a certain skepticism among part of Argentine society.
In this sense, doubts loom over how it is possible that if he had half a million cryptocurrencies, all that capital did not transcend the rest of his life, while memes from his time as streamerlive in video games like those in the saga Age of Empires. “In 2014 I began to invest heavily in Bitcoin. Between 2014 and 2018 we actually earned a lot of money with this investment,” explained Adorni, but on the networks they began to rescue his statements that have ended up forming a newspaper archive that sows doubts about his relationship with the crypto world.
For example, attention is focused on some statements he made in the context of a training video in which he himself told the anecdote that in 2015 he had seen some of his students buy bitcoins and that at that time he did not understand anything.
