Legislators Martin Lousteau and Pablo Blanco, both from the Radical Civic Union, and Guadalupe Tagliaferri, from the Republican Proposal, requested through the Audit Commission that the AGN open an investigation into the National Agency for Disability (ANDIS) into the alleged collection of kickbacks by officials in the Presidency from the sale of medicines for people with disabilities.

According to audio recordings that came to light from former ANDIS director Diego Spagnuolo, the president’s sister and Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei, and his political advisor Eduardo Menem were collecting bribes for authorizing multimillion-dollar prescription invoices that ended up at Drogueria Suizo Argentina SA.

“We believe that the seriousness of this situation warrants urgent intervention by Congress, in general, and by the committee under your charge in particular. The Legislative Branch cannot remain indifferent to serious events whose magnitude we have yet to fully understand,” the three senators stated in their request.

They also asked to focus the investigation on contracts signed with Droguería Suizo Argentina, a company with close ties to the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Martin Menem, and Councilor Eduardo Menem, Karina Milei’s right-hand man. The Argentine news agency Noticias Argentinas reported that Lousteau, Blanco, and Tagliaferri also requested another audit of the National Agency of Medicines, Food, and Medical Technology (ANMAT) to clarify its procedures and alert systems.

They also requested an audit of the laboratories HBL Pharma and Ramallo, producers of the contaminated fentanyl that was distributed to hospitals in several Argentine provinces, where it was used and caused a fatal lung infection in patients.

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