Buenos Aires.- A luxury family trip to Aruba, which adds to other known ones weeks ago and the scandal over undeclared properties, increasingly corners the Argentine Chief of Staff and right-hand man of President Javier Milei, Manuel Adorni, who is being investigated for illicit enrichment.
The court investigating it found that Adorni took a vacation trip to Aruba between December 29, 2024 and January 10, 2025, along with his family, which was very expensive in relation to his current income given the price of the hotel where he stayed and the first-class plane tickets they purchased to travel to the Caribbean island.
In the midst of the growing scandal, the official added in recent days to his sworn statement a house in an exclusive neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in the name of his wife, Bettina Angeletti, as a result of the fact that it came to light that they had acquired it when Adorni was already holding a position in the Milei government.
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Precisely with his wife Angeletti, he traveled at the beginning of March on the presidential plane to New York, along with the entourage that participated in an event aimed at investors. Afterwards, Adorni himself acknowledged that she should not have accompanied him.
Adding to all this is another family trip to Uruguay in a private plane, last February, which would have been financed by Marcelo Grandio, a friend of his and who, since Milei's assumption as president (December 2023), has signed contracts with Public Television, in charge of the Cabinet Office.
Focus on the Increase in Adorni's Wealth During the Milei Government
Socialist deputy Esteban Paulón, one of the complainants in the case against Adorni, told EFE this Thursday that "the increase in his wealth is exorbitant for two years of management by a person who declared that his income came exclusively from the public function, in a Government that froze the income of public officials."
Another focus of the investigation led by prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita is the purchase, by Adorni, of an apartment in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito and a house in a residential neighborhood outside the capital, since, apparently, two retired women - who claimed to hardly know him - lent him, without interest, a good part of the money for said acquisitions.
"Adorni now recognizes properties that were not in his sworn declaration of assets and that were purchased with a mortgage or personal loan modality, and it is not very clear if they are real or ways to launder money," added Paulón.
According to the deputy, the recent revelations about Adorni's assets could lead to crimes such as money laundering, embezzlement of public funds, and influence peddling.
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«The link that Adorni's wife maintains with state-owned supplier companies through a consultancy she owns is also being investigated», he explained.
The Secretary General of the Presidency and sister of the president, Karina Milei, will visit the facilities of the state-owned oil company YPF in the productive area of Vaca Muerta, in Patagonia, this Thursday along with Adorni, as a show of public support for the Chief of Staff.
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