06/12/2020 - 22:39
- Clarín.com
- Opinion
Spy stories have that charm of discovering an exciting world, unknown to ordinary people, always gruesome and often dark . A world of struggles for power spaces at the summits of power, of shadows and of actors accustomed to operating in the shadows, of intrigues, snitches and traitors. But also a world in which secondary actors end up playing central roles .
Some and quite a lot of that is in a drug trafficking complaint that fell in a court in Lomas de Zamora and turned into an investigation of political espionage that Cristina and Macri star among others. The case is still in the hands of Judge Villena, appointed by Macrismo and who must now investigate the Macrista AFI of Arribas and Majdalani.
The first secondary actor to occupy a central role is a narco chief from the southern zone, Sergio Verdura Rodríguez. We start badly if they call it Vegetable because it is not a vegetable. Villena had been chasing him since 2016 but Verdura was being chased by another coincidence: every time they went looking for him and went with the police force of any kind, he had just left. Anyone can imagine where the coincidences came from . Lawyer involved and fear of involvement, Verdura delivered himself armed as a ranger. And then he confessed: I work for AFI.
And more: he said that they hired him (they hired is a way of saying it) to put a bomb in the house of José Luis Vila, a historical figure of intelligence of radicalism. The strange thing is that Verdura was given the wrong address: Vila no longer lived there. And on top of that, he was out of the country. The trotyl bar was not ready to explode. Because of the things they do and how they do it, intelligence services don't waste any intelligence. In this case, let's say thank you.
Verdura said that the AFI agent who hired him was Facundo Melo, whom he met for a Barrabrava prisoner for homicide and compadre of Bebote Alvarez, head of the Independiente bar also imprisoned. And he said he asked Melo for protection from drug trafficking.
In this story, the contractor Melo is another secondary actor who has become the principal and no self-employed. As an AFI agent and lawyer, he defended two from the Independent gang, Lagaronne, now a prisoner, who denounced Pablo Moyano and later repented. Melo challenged Villena and presented a habeas corpus: he was rejected. When the judge raided his home and hijacked his cell phone, the secret operations team began to surface. Melo had not erased his mobile and was chatting with other spies via chat. Super Agent 86 couldn't do worse.
The name of Leandro Araque appeared and for him that of his wife, Mecha Mansilla, also a police officer and available since they disappeared from the safe of the cybercrime office and without violating US $ 60,000 . Mansilla had her cell phone in the court investigating the robbery. The biggest surprise came from Melo himself when he confessed that he was a spy within the spy team: he recorded the conversations with his boss Alan Ruiz, who these days led to the tevé.
Ruiz was deputy commissioner in the Metropolitan and passed through the Ministry of Security before taking over as director of special operations. It is not known who put it. It is known that he liked to reveal what he did and why he did it . And before agents that arrived in commission from other forces and that you hardly knew, does anyone imagine Jaime Stiusso doing that? He says that they had to seek coverage "by a judicial instance", that his boss Majdalani "did not take into account the administrative parts" and that he had to arm "an NGO without putting a weight". Why did Majdalani not use the silver mountain of AFI's reserved funds to finance AFI operations? What was she using them for? Paying snitches with protection is the most expensive price you can pay.
With Ruiz's Brancaleone Navy, the AFI is rolling the sheets to the Macrist espionage and showing the degradation of an intelligence center that remains a dark corner of democracy . It worked with almost police station logic in multi-gang operations: Cristina and former Kirchner prison officials, Moyano, Macri's sister's boyfriend, journalists and Pro politicians such as Larreta, Santilli, Vidal and Ritondo were spied on. They cannot be accused of being partial .
The judicial history is just beginning. Cristina forgets what the Kirchner spies did and throws herself on what Macri's spies did with the same objective that she sought with the vice-presidency: to wash their causes and to free themselves of all corruption convictions.
