The consequences of the case of Alessio shake the world of espionage

The case of Alessio has upset the world of espionage, which has once again introduced into political life and

Federal Justice

. Perhaps he has never stopped doing it, but this episode highlights the political instrumentation of intelligence tasks and the inefficiency of the camera. Giant state to prevent clandestine espionage.

According to Dolores' judge, Alejo Ramos Padilla, the object of the investigation is no longer to verify whether the prosecutor

Carlos Stornelli

participated or not in the extortion of funds of Pedro Etchebest, but to an investigation on clandestine intelligence operations and its alleged relations with the parquet floor.

The figure of Marcelo D'Alessio is partly unknown. He has not yet clarified to whom he has answered nor how deep the links he claims to have.

In statements to the media, he stated that he worked as an inorganic agent for the AFI. From this organization, they first ignored it and then denounced it. During his arrest, D & # 39; Alessio said that he was working for Ricardo Bogoliuk, an ex-cop from Buenos Aires hired by the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) to perform duties from May 4th to December 31, 2017, as well as for Aníbal Degastaldi. , who was separated from the Buenos Aires police in 2003. He also said that Etchebest, alleged victim of extortion, was working collusively with Bogoliuk.

Bogoliuk and Degastaldi were arrested and refused to testify. Several questions remain, such as knowing with what money Bogoliuk hired D & # 39; Alessio.

According to the intelligence agency, Bogoliuk stopped working there in December 2017. "You can not follow those who stop working," they claim in AFI. But sources from the former SIDE felt that the body "had gotten rid of the turtle" and that, although Bogoliuk could have acted as an unoccupied labor force , the agency had elements to detect a possible conflict.

The espionage cases of former Kirchner employees who are being held at Ezeiza Prison were recorded while they should have been destroyed. But, furthermore, these prison talks were used to alert members of the Civic Coalition that a maneuver was under way against Stornelli.

Although there is talk of a climate of tension between the director of the president's office

AFI

and close friend of the president,

Gustavo Arribas

and the deputy director, Silvia Majdalani, in the intelligence agency, there is no self-criticism.

In government, these episodes cause discontent. The subject was little mentioned, but two elements are combined: the toxic stain that grows when the breakdown of D'Alessio's links and the validity of clandestine espionage practices in an administration promising institutional regeneration.

During the presidential campaign of 2015, the councilor Jaime Durán Barba suggested, in order to "reunite the Argentineans", to close the AFI and to replace it by a new agency of fight against the organized crime, in order to "leave this army in the street". to spy on the Argentines. "But this idea only lasted 48 hours.

According to his book
We change, the director of strategic communication of the chief of staff, Hernán Iglesias Illa, was eliminated from the list of campaign promises without any explanation.

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D'Alessio is involved in more than one trial. He is now being sued by Judge Luis Rodríguez for extorting in 2016 the customs broker Gabriel Traficante, involved in the so-called mafia container case. But, according to Ramos Padilla, in a letter to the bicameral Commission for the surveillance of agencies and intelligence activities – whose role is to monitor the performance of the AFI -, information about others court records were seized during raids of D & # 39; Alessio. , like the double crime Unicenter and the triple crime of General Rodríguez.

Ramos Padilla will visit the bicameral committee on Thursday to present his findings on the removed material.

This information already had its tail. Last Friday, a search was carried out at the home of Juan Bidone, prosecutor of the first investigation into the triple crime and dismissed, who admitted that he knew Alessio and had exchanged information.

He even said that the fake lawyer had asked for information about Pedro Etchebest's incoming and outgoing calls.