Illegal espionage: Cristina Caamaño’s investigation and Macrista’s strategy of torpedoing investigations | The AFI speaker before Judge Servini

The auditor of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), Cristina Caamaño, denied being responsible for leak of a book of minutes that he sent to the federal justice of Lomas de Zamora while the illegal espionage during the government of Mauricio Macri. During the investigation before the judge Maria servini and the prosecutor Eduardo Taiano this Friday at noonCaamano said that after the leak there was no danger for any of the officers. The case arose out of a complaint from former AFI members, joined by several opposition leaders, such as Cristian Ritondo, Jorge Enríquez, Fernando Iglesias and Waldo Wolff. Since Macrism the leak like a workaholic to torpedo spy investigations during management Let’s change.

A group of four ex-agents filed a lawsuit against Caamaño on September 28 last year for abuse of authority Yes violation of secrets. All this happened following the disclosure on internet portals of a copy of a minute book that she had sent to the prosecution of Lomas de Zamora, who was carrying out the investigation for espionage at the Patria Institute. . In this case, the former general manager is being sued Gustavo Arribas, the former deputy director Silvia majdalani, the former operational director of counter-espionage Martin Coste and the former director of special operations Alain Ruiz.

“The information provided by AFI was not only decisive in determining the existence of this illegal activity within the Agency itself, but also in disentangling its organic structure at the time of the events.», Declared Caamaño in a letter presented by Servini, to which Page 12 had access. In fact, the cause of espionage at Instituto Patria began with a complaint that Caamaño herself filed in Lomas in February of last year.

Through Zoom, the speaker at AFI briefly explained her role within the Agency and her collaboration in court cases since Alberto Fernández appointed her as head of exSIDE and has answered questions from the judge and the prosecutor. As this diary was able to piece it together, Caamano said:

• That the complaint was unfounded;

• That no agent abroad or in the country had ever been in danger after the disclosure of the copy of the minute book;

• That no other country complained because an agreement with another agency was in danger, according to the Foreign Ministry informed the court;

• That she took all precautions when sending the copy of the minutes book, which was on paper and that she asked not to reproduce it and that it be consulted only by the prosecution;

• That she collaborated 40 times with the federal justice of Lomas when the mega-espionage was investigated there and the leak occurred 70 days after the document was sent;

• That in any case it was in Lomas that it was decided to download the copy to the system and from there the leak took place;

• That he had no obligation to test the information, that this does not follow from any internal provision, and that on the other hand, he has the obligation to cooperate with the justice system.

Caamaño asked for his dismissal. His situation will have to be defined by Judge Servini, probably after the winter fair which begins on Monday.

Facts

Cost, who held a senior position within AFI during the final stage of the Arribas administration, He ended up denouncing his former bosses for their spy cover-ups against the CFK. He did so first in front of Bicameral Intelligence on June 26 of last year. He ratified it on July 10 last year before the judge Juan Pablo Augé when he had to appear at the inquest, but asked to testify after reading the case. Augé set a new audience exactly one week later. Coste’s defender then requested access to the resolutions that Arribas had signed so that his client could explain, among other things, why he could not report what he knew internally because key AFI positions were occupied. by friends or relatives of AFI. then Lord Five.

On July 16 of last year, at 6.30 p.m., a notebook of 135 sheets ringed with the minutes referring to the resolutions that Arribas had signed between 2016 and 2018 arrived at the Lomas prosecutor’s office. The inspector asked prosecutors that the material be viewed only in connection with the prosecution to prevent leaks. Coste declared the next day. He remained in Judge Augé’s office for over six hours. The hearing ended because there was a power outage in the area. The following Monday, the former COO of Counterintelligence reported that he was showing symptoms of covid. Even so, the fiscal Cecilia Incardona and the clerk went to Coste’s to sign the minutes which had not been signed at the end of the investigation due to the power outage. The statement ended with five people with covid. The prosecutor was hospitalized for eleven days. the tax Santiago Eyherabide He was also infected, although he passed through it without serious symptoms. Augé had to keep a strict rest.

Waiting, Arribas and Majdalani requested access to the minute book, as Coste had been able to do to defend himself.. The material ended up being uploaded to the system and from there it was leaked. When prosecutors saw the leak, they asked Augé to turn it down and reported the facts to the judge. Caamano also filed a complaint, but in the courts of Comodoro Py.

the complaints of data leaks were constant from those responsible for the macrismo and even Mauricio Macri himself, as a way to thwart investigations that have come to light and have shown that spying had been so widespread that he even had the then president’s own sister as a victim Florence macri. The minutes, which Caamaño sent at the request of prosecutors, were essential to understand, no more and no less, the structure of AFI, from which illegal intelligence tasks were orchestrated.

A priori, with the call for inquiry, ends Caamano placed in place of investigation after promoting more than half a dozen investigations into role of spies under Macri administration. Among other things, Caamaño denounced espionage at the Patria Institute, surveillance within the framework of the world summits of the G20 and the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the control exerted on the relatives of the crew members of the sub -marine ARA San Juan – by which the former leaders of the AFI macrista were investigated last week.