The government on Thursday circulated what it called the findings of a federal security force’s forensic review of leaked disability-agency bribery recordings; judicial sources said no such report has been filed.
The government’s summary attributes the findings to the forensic directorate of the Gendarmería, a federal security force that answers to the government. It says the experts could not determine whether the recordings attributed to Diego Spagnuolo, the former disability agency chief, are authentic or assign the voices to the people charged, because the chain of custody had been broken before the files reached them. They reported signs of re-recording, abrupt cuts and acoustic inconsistencies, and said they could not rule out editing or the use of artificial intelligence to alter or generate voices. The same summary also says the review “determined that the Spagnuolo audios are not authentic.”
Judicial sources said no such report is in the case file. They said the experts appointed by each side in the review ordered by Judge Ariel Lijo met on Wednesday, as they do every week, with no final conclusions and no document signed by all of them. They added that the recordings matter little, because prosecutor Franco Picardi never entered them as evidence and his case rests on other material, including documents and messages recovered from defendants’ phones. The same sources recalled that Spagnuolo declined to give a voice sample for the comparison Lijo ordered.
The recordings, leaked in August 2025, are attributed to Spagnuolo, who is charged in the case; an appeals court confirmed the charges in September. In them a voice describes an alleged kickback scheme in medicine purchases and mentions a 3% cut for Karina Milei, the president’s sister and secretary general of the presidency, who has not been charged. Spagnuolo’s defense argues the files were edited or generated with artificial intelligence and hopes the review will help it seek to annul the whole case.