Information obtained from a United States court is turning into a new headache for national deputy José Luis Espert, La Libertad Avanza’s top candidate for the upcoming midterm elections.
On February 1, 2020 he received a money order for US$200,000. It came from an acquaintance who today is under arrest in Argentina, awaiting extradition to the United States [Editor's note: the extradition request was suspended this week after four years of court delays].
The information emerges from criminal charges filed with the US courts to which Perfil had access. It has been presented by social activist and lawyer Juan Grabois to demonstrate the alleged economic links between Espert, the current Lower House Budget Committee chairman and Federico Andrés “Fred” Machado, an Argentine businessman suspected of involvement in drug-trafficking.
Machado has been under arrest since April 16, 2021, accused of be
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