Claudia Insaurralde was arrested in Ezeiza along with two other people. The Justice system is investigating an alleged criminal network
The first judicial case targets an alleged organization dedicated to transporting cocaine using trucks belonging to a transport company, whose activities date back at least to December 2025. According to judicial sources, the distribution of the drugs would be managed by two men, one of whom is responsible for a car wash that allegedly operated as a delivery point for the drugs.
Claudia Insaurralde, partner of the "businessman" Lázaro Báez convicted of corruption in the cases "Vialidad" and "La Ruta del Dinero K", was arrested at the Ezeiza International Airport as part of two linked judicial investigations aimed at clarifying alleged drug trafficking, money laundering, and management of assets of illicit origin that may have remained beyond the reach of the seizures imposed on the businessman.
The operation took place on Monday when Insaurralde arrived from Río Gallegos on flight AR1857 of Aerolíneas Argentinas. Personnel from the Argentine Naval Prefecture and the Airport Security Police carried out her arrest along with two other individuals, identified as Cristian Sebastián Ibáñez and Valentina Micaela Devetac, amid investigators' suspicions that they might attempt to leave the country.
This Thursday, the formalization hearing of the charges and detention control will take place in Río Gallegos, led by federal judge Claudio Vázquez. The investigation is under secrecy, so details about the role attributed to each detainee have not yet been disclosed.
However, the progress of this investigation has allowed for the opening of a second line that directly implicates the businessman linked to public works during the Kirchner governments. Investigators suspect that Báez could lead, even from his place of detention in Ezeiza, an organization aimed at managing, exploiting, and circulating assets of illicit origin despite the property restrictions resulting from his convictions.
One of the elements connecting both investigations is that one of the alleged members of the structure attributed to Báez is also the head of the organization dedicated to drug trafficking in Santa Cruz. This hypothesis still needs to be judicially substantiated and constitutes one of the main focuses of the investigation.
At the request of the federal prosecutor's office in Río Gallegos and the Procuraduría de Criminalidad Económica y Lavado de Activos (PROCELAC), Judge Vázquez ordered more than twenty raids in Río Gallegos, El Calafate, various Santa Cruz estates, and Buenos Aires. The operations included seizures, searches, and confiscations of vehicles, documentation, and narcotic substances.
