"There are also MPs who have used the spy network …

"It is a semi-public network of ideological, political and judicial espionage of a large scale." The definition of Dolores Federal Judge Alejo Ramos Padilla before the House of Deputies' Committee on Freedom of Expression clearly showed how the rule of law seriously affected the crimes brought to light by his investigation. , who had begun with the accusation of extortion against the false lawyer Marcelo D'Alessio has resulted in a whole network of illegal intelligence operations "related to the judiciary, ministries, security forces, political authorities and the media "that have existed for some time. Operations which, according to the judge, exceed our country and may jeopardize relations with countries such as Uruguay, Venezuela, Iran, Israel and the United States ", whose intelligence services Alessio claimed to answer.The fake lawyer had headers of US diplomatic representation in Argentina, in addition to the Israeli Ministry of Security.The US Embbady has not yet responded on the veracity of the powers.

The magistrate acknowledged that the federal prosecutor Carlos Stornelli was not the only member of the investigated power in his case. Cambiemos deputies did not attend the committee meeting and issued a statement in which they "rejected the staging" when they considered Ramos Padilla's appeal. The FpV-PJ and other opposition groups claimed that the Court provided the information requested by the Dolores Court (see box) and that the government provided security for the judge. In addition, they questioned deputies Elisa Carrió and Paula Olivetto, of the Civic Coalition, close links with Alessio and "users" of their intelligence reports.

From extortion to spying

Ramos Padilla exhibited for two hours and ten minutes, with a small interval, before commission. He gave details of the case that lost the secrecy of the minutes after Judge Julian Ercolini declared himself competent, "without knowing the subject of the proceedings" of the case. ;investigation. An investigation revealed, according to the judge, "a 180-degree turn" after the raid on D & # 39; Alessio's home. The case initiated by the extortion complaint filed by agricultural producer Pedro Etchebest – who provided 14 hours of audio, video and photographs – led to the discovery of a network espionage composed of "organic agents or inorganic intelligence services", of which D & # 39; Alessio was part of.

There, the false lawyer wanted to avoid the diversion of his phone and his computer, while admitting that the elements contained in these files were related to intelligence investigations while invoking the help and protection of the Minister of Justice. Security, Patricia Bullrich, and the president himself. Mauricio Macri. Ramos Padilla, who has only ratified the issues that had already transcended the file and avoided any opinion on the people involved in the case, has conveyed the audio in which D'Alessio made these invocations.

The files

In one of the four hard drives that the court has managed to unravel until now, as well as its iPhone 10, have found several records of intelligence operations. One of them – under the title "From Vido, Baratta, Moyano, D & Elia" -, D'Alessio explained how he had behaved in the legal file LNG, for which De Vido and Baratta are imprisoned after being "infiltrated". a year and a half in Enarsa "for the US intelligence center NCS.The same goes for his relations with the journalist Clarín, Daniel Santoro, the contribution he made to his book and the statement before the prosecutor Stornelli In addition to the "softening" of the former head of the Venezuelan oil company Pdvsa, Gonzalo Brusa Duvat, who agreed to meet with Santoro before personally taking him to Stornelli's office. There was also information about alleged DEA protocols and "US Embbady" personnel, who were protecting him as well as his family. "This is the rye of Pdvsa", has he declared in phone messages to Mario Montoto, a businessman dedicated to selling arms and to "great friendship" with Stornelli.

Another file was devoted to the statements of Leonardo Fariña against the former head of the AFIP, Ricardo Echegaray. There was also a pattern of a presidential campaign, with the contribution of the "Advisory Council of the President of the United States", plus a "satellite group" responsible for judicial and journalistic "operations."

In another file, the mechanism of identity duplication for people who have been the subject of a request for capture from the National Congress has been detailed. Another was dedicated to his relations with the Courts of Comodoro Py. There were also records of drug trafficking in Rosario. And another file explained the espionage to the businessman Gabriel Traficante, during an extortion operation with photos and filming his personal monitoring and his property made with the use of drones.

Some of Alessio 's notes referred to a supposedly superior espionage that he identifies with the RB acronym. The initials could be those of another extortionist prisoner, former Buenos Aires Commissioner Ricardo Bogoliuk, who worked for the AFI until 2017. The other former commissioner from Buenos Aires to prison is Aníbal Degastaldi.

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D & # 39; Alessio 's cell phones also reveal other links in the espionage plot. A hidden camera to the lawyer Juan Manuel Ubeira, defense lawyer of Oscar Thomas, former holder of Yaciretá, and Federico Elaskar, former owner of the SGI financier, so that his accused denounces in another cause that It interested in Alessio, which would have agreed with Stornelli by WhatsApp. Although he admitted that the operation would cause him problems with Patricia Buulrich, who, according to the false lawyer, would have paid him 200,000 pesos a month for the judicial defense of Fariña.

They also discovered another operation against an alleged Iranian company based in Uruguay, which traded through Russian companies and wanted to prevent it from doing business with the Argentine government. And that complicated the leaders of the broad Uruguayan front. Task for which D'Alessio claimed to relate to "Maine", the neighboring state of Canada where the NCS headquarters is located. It's something that he frequently repeats in his messages and his conversations. It is the same with its supposed participation in "the extraction" of US officials from Venezuela and also from Argentina.

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Before the question of the deputies, Ramos Padilla acknowledged that the journalists of Rodrigo Alegre, Eduardo Feimann and Rolando Graña also figured in the case, for having participated in the armed interviews by D & # 39; Alessio, and indicated that he preferred not to divulge the names before preserving them and because "they can be victims". Although he clarified that in these cases, no record of intelligence on their ideologies had been found, as had been the case in the cases Alejandro Fantino and Romina Manguel, records according to which D'Alessio allegedly armed information provided by Santoro.

The judge also answered about the mayor of the city of Salta, Gustavo Sáenz, who appears in the extortion case videos alongside Stornelli in the CR Pinamar spa. Ramos Padilla said that Sáenz had gone to his court, had declared his cell phone and even made it available.

The magistrate claimed that he was a victim of media operations. He justified his participation in March 24 marches by participating in trials against humanity and his attachment to the rule of law. And it also worked once with Falklands veterans in support of their application to identify NN graves on the islands.

Ramos Padilla requested that the participation of judges and prosecutors in the activities of the American embbady be naturalized in the media. "International relations should be in the hands of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," he said at the end of his term in Congress.