Manipulation to sign direct contract worth more than $48 billion with ANDIS revealed using handwritten notes and chats

A high-profile corruption operation within the National Disability Agency (ANDIS), headed by Diego Spagnuolo, lasted for almost two years until August, when a scandal erupted over audio of him talking about bribery allegations. Contract addressthe fines and supposed restitution involving more than $48 billion were all recorded in a notebook and could be traced because a cell phone was the key.

“We can conclude that ANDIS was established as an institution in which a structured and sustainable scheme existed. Direction of public procurement “And as a result, the nature of defrauding the public treasury was carried out using the SIIPFIS computer system as a tool for apparent transparency,” wrote federal prosecutor Franco Picardi in requesting an investigation of 15 former officials and businessmen.

To arrive at this thesis, the prosecution examined “the manipulation of price control mechanisms to artificially limit competition, mainly the formation of a circuit of predetermined suppliers.” Drugstore Profarma SA, Génesis SA, New Farma SA, Floresta SA.- Directly or indirectly connected to the organization’s personnel or management. ”

This targeting allowed us to consolidate a limited group of suppliers to the exclusion of our usual competitors. “It’s a scaled-down competition where only three or four carefully selected drugstores are invited to ensure the same company wins the process over and over again.”

In the second phase, at least when it came to pharmaceuticals, once control over the purchasing circuit was tightened, the beneficiary corporate groups began to “continue to increase the prices of the winning pharmaceutical products.”

The operation reportedly cost a total of P48,783,043,406.77.

This number is made up of: The company that split Genesis SA and Profarma SA. 93.11% of the $30,337,220,919 awarded during the verification period (from July 2024 to August 2025) within the framework of “reduced” bidding.

Similarly, New Farma SA and Floresta SA were awarded 51.67% of the $13,328,004,541 awarded in 2025 (to August) and 50.36% of $5,117,817,946 awarded from September 2024 to the end of the same year in the field of cochlear implants, hearing aids and related supplies.

For the federal judicial system, it said, the fraud was “not an isolated event, but the result of an organizational structure with decentralized functions and differentiated roles designed to ensure the permanence of the system, conceal its economic interests, and ensure the continuity of its operations through the control of the SIIPFIS system and price enforcement.”

How was this corrupt structure elucidated? Through the mobile phone of Daniel Garberini, a former subordinate of Diego Spagnuolo at ANDIS, and the handwritten notes of Miguel Ángel Calvete, another key figure in the operation under investigation.

miguel angel calveteis a person associated with several drug stores and companies supplying PACBI supplies, particularly INDECOMM SRL, Profusion SA and Profarma SA. He had direct connections and influence with Diego Spagnuolo and Daniel Garberini and “consulted them about the payments they had to arrange from ANDIS and met them at their homes and in bars in the southern autonomous city of Buenos Aires.”

But above all, prosecutor Franco Picardi explained, he was not a designated official, but one of the people within ANDIS who gave instructions. ”However, as well as supplier to the agency and Pablo Achabahian (former member of ANDIS), “The organization had its own operators, at least Lorena Di Giorno and Eduardo Nerio Gonzalez.”

In this way, Miguel Ángel Calvete, through his company and by leveraging these connections, “succeeded in obtaining multi-billion peso prizes in a targeted manner.”

That wasn’t the only thing discovered, prosecutors said, saying Calbete “managed collections and coordinated payments to other drugstores and companies in the same field, including Laboratorio Ortopédico Sagues SRL, Grupo Alemana, and MED-EL Latinoamerica.”

Its role was thus to act as a connector between ANDIS and the health-related private sector. Second, “he was one of the individuals responsible for administering numerous improper payments to various ANDIS employees. Along with Pablo Achabahian, they were “linked to each other because they were external operators, sharing information on ANDIS payments and expenditures, and making decisions related to PACB benefits.”

The judicial system confiscated Calvete’s handwritten notes containing accurate information, but the biggest surprise was that his house was searched. I found a paper jam in the kitchen. This includes companies with which we maintain strong relationships, such as companies that provide medicines and supplies to ANDIS (INDECOMM SRL and Profarma SA).

Everything was neatly recorded in a notebook with dates, company names, contact information, percentages of amounts, etc. that were part of the evidence in the case, as well as notebook pages with routes for suspected bribery.

On October 9, 2025, the court found that Mr. Calvete “not only acted in the interests of the company; Rather, he was the true expression of an illegal organization. ”

According to the indictment, he was “the primary guarantor of its deployment and operation. One of his notebooks stated:” List of people who were part of your contact circle: Many of these people were part of ANDIS, various companies, drug stores, and were also people close to him professionally, personally, and family-wise.

Other images obtained from these same notes show that in the notes, Miguel Ángel Calvete recorded the transfers of funds between various companies related to the benefit, known as PACBI. This means that the company in question may be entitled to a payment, even though he was not appointed to ANDIS and does not perform any formal duties there.

Another notebook contains several forms where you can see the names of the companies Expotrauma, Artrobone, and IMNOVA. “In the various columns of the document, the name and surname of the recipient of the benefit and other personal and procedural data are recorded, and in subsequent columns the amount is recorded,” the prosecutor emphasized.

For example, the last four columns show amounts grouped by cost (there are two columns, the first column displays a higher number than the second column), variance (the result of the subtraction between the first and second columns of costs), and 2/3 part (the number representing two-thirds of the previous column “Difference”).

This shows that Miguel Ángel Calvete “recorded the various amounts associated with PACBI benefits, among them the distribution of the difference between the actual cost and the actual cost sold.”

These notes also describe Calvete’s inner circle, some of whom were mentioned on multiple occasions, Picardi said, adding that the annotations on those pages revealed how a mechanism “specifically designed for arbitrariness” operates in ANDIS. .

Conversations obtained from Mr. Calbete’s cell phone showed that he was sending images detailing money contained in various signatures he may have received from ANDIS, including signatures associated with the named persons. Ortopedia SA, Cirugía Alemana Insumos Médicos SA, Droguería Profarma SA, Expo Trauma SA, Farma Salud SRL, Indecomm, Laboratorios Ortopédicos Sagués SRL, MED Latinoamérica SRL, Medical Implants SA, Ortopedia Bernat SRL and Prolite Orthopedics SRL, amounts in various percentages (70, 30, and 1.7%) were handwritten and noted that they “may be related to payments, collections, or withholdings for these companies.”

But the cell phone that “talked” the most belonged to Daniel Garberini. In July of this year, he sent the images to various companies and drugstores, including Propharma SA and Indecom SRL, which are linked to Miguel Ángel Ángel Calvete and other companies, who have been managing the collection with their respective owners and managers.

Their subsequent conversation “revealed a special interest.” Miguel Ángel Calbete talks about the situation at INDECOMM SRL and Drogería Profarma SA”.

After sending him a list of providers and the phrase “your products,” Miguel Ángel Calbete said, “Look at PROFARMA.” To this, Daniel Maria Garberini replied: “Next week’s 1621M is already scheduled.”

In summary, the prosecutor stated that “from the above conversations it becomes clear that Pablo Achabahian, who does not work within ANDIS, was the person who was able to unblock the payments and influence certain decisions related to it. In a separate order, various conversations that Miguel Ángel Calbete had with businessmen in this field were identified.”

“It is worth highlighting several milestones that demonstrate the existence of a system of restitution for various public officials,” prosecutors wrote in the case.

Diego Orlando Spagnolo received from Miguel Ángel Calbete and Guadalupe Muñoz. 5 million Argentine pesos ($5 million) in cash, According to the chat, the first person is planning to go on a trip.

This information was obtained from a conversation that Miguel Ángel Calbete had with Guadalupe Ariana Muñoz, in which he asked his partner for “5 sticks” in peso cash. When she asks who that amount is for, Miguel Ángel Calvete replies who it is for. “Idiots who travel to Israel and don’t have pesos in cash.”

Afterwards, Diego Orlando Spagnolo and Miguel Ángel Calvete had a conversation that centered around the envisioned trip and how to get the money to “some hidden place.”

There are other messages that Pablo Achabahian asked Daniel Garberini directly. Quote “invitation” “June 20th”. This “could be related to the fact that Drogeria 20 de Junio ​​SA sold medicines from Roche SAQEI,” the prosecutor said.

After these messages and this order from Pablo Achabahian, Mr. Galbeli told Mr. Roger Grant (especially those who processed the certification through SIIPFIS) to include Drogeria 20 de Junio ​​SA.

The power of the Achabahians is evident in a message ordering them to stop payments to drugstores that were “acting badly.”

The day after Diego Orlando Spagnolo’s audio was released and the investigation began, Pablo Acciabaian called Daniel Garberini through the WhatsApp application and spoke with him for about 12 minutes.

“The analyzed messages gave rise to fears that her workplace would know that she had performed work for ANDIS, as she was aware that this could result in her being cut off from the company,” prosecutors concluded.