Just three weeks before a key election that will define the future of his reform agenda, President Javier Milei’s government finds itself at the centre of another scandal.
Opposition lawmakers this week called for La Libertad Avanza national deputy José Luis Espert, the ruling party’s top candidate in next month’s midterm elections, to renounce his candidacy and resign amid revelations he previously took cash from a suspected drug-trafficker.
Espert, 63, is at the centre of a media storm after several outlets reported last weekend that the lawmaker received a US$200,000 payment in 2020 from Federico Andrés “Fred” Machado, an Argentine businessman who faces drug-trafficking allegations in the United States courts.
Speculation over a link to Machado is not new, but freshly leaked US court files indicate Espert was the recipient of a large payment from a trust co-owned by Machado.
Machado is currently being held under house arrest in Río Negr
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