The moral decomposition of the Buenos Aires state apparatus has added a new and scandalous chapter. In the city of La Plata, the arrest and prosecution of Albertina Mangini, an official belonging to the Attorney General's Office of Buenos Aires who was currently serving on commission within the Parole Board, was ordered.
The accused is charged with leading a monumental criminal structure that mobilized the obscene amount of $27 billion within a year using digital platforms. This millionaire embezzlement, which exposes the lack of control guarantees of the management of Axel Kicillof, culminated with the indictment of Mangini on serious charges of "organized crime", "fraud through the misuse of digital data", and "aggravated money laundering", crimes intensified by their habitual nature and by her role as a public official.
From greater to lesser, the criminal plot reveals the classic modus operandi of the old politics that the national government seeks to eradicate: the exploitation of social need. The criminal gang used the financial engineering of "smurfing" to evade state controls.
The maneuver consisted of making countless micro-transfers of small amounts through virtual wallets to evade tax alerts.
To achieve this, the Kirchnerist official targeted people in situations of extreme economic vulnerability, offering them $80,000 in exchange for providing their personal and biometric data to open accounts that would then serve as financial "mules".
Vilely taking advantage of her public position, Albertina Mangini recruited these individuals under judicial supervision or in contexts of social fragility, which the prosecution described as a clear "abuse of public function".
