The body the media calls the $Libra Commission, which is investigating President Javier Milei for promoting a fake cryptocurrency that resulted in a multi-million-dollar scam involving hundreds of people, will ask a judge to force two officials from the Libertarian government who are reluctant to testify, including the use of public force, to appear before the committee.

The same measure could be applied to Karina Milei if she were to fail to appear next week. They also decided to summon those involved in the $LIBRA organization in Argentina: Mauricio Novelli, Manuel Terrones Godoy, and Sergio Morales.

These are the head of the Anti-Corruption Office, Alejandro Melik, and Maria Florencia Zicavo, head of the Investigative Work Unit (UTI), created—now dissolved—within the Executive Branch. This same measure could be applied to Karina Milei, who is the Secretary General of the Presidency with the rank of Minister.

Melik and Zicavo have refused to respond alleging that there is a duplication of cases, since the case is also being investigated by the Justice Department, in this case the investigation is stalled; even Judge Maria R. Servini was removed from the case due to her inability to investigate it.

Also summoned to testify were the presidents of the National Securities Commission (CNV), Roberto Silva, and of the Financial Information Unit (UIF), Paul Starc, who also failed to appear, arguing that they were out of the country.

Another investigation advancing in both the courts and Congress is the government corruption scandal involving the alleged collection of bribes from inflated billing for medications intended for people with disabilities through the National Disability Agency (ANDIS), which was paid by Drogueria Suizo Argentina SA.

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