After the controversy over the comings and goings of the ruling party in its attempt to reduce the custody of the former presidents, it has now become known that the head of the Department that provides protection to Vice President
Victoria Villarruel
belonged to the same body that he commanded until December 10. Commissioner
Diego Carbone ,
Cristina Kirchner
's historic custodian
, in the Senate.
This is
Sergio Nobile
, who today oversees the Vice Presidential Security Department that provides protection to the former deputy but also to the provisional president of the Senate,
Bartolomé Abdala
from San Luis , another of the leaders of La Libertad Avanza in the body.
The point is that this commissioner of the Federal Police during Cristina's administration in the Upper House served as head of the
"Division while Carbone was his head of Department
," explains a qualified source consulted by this newspaper, referring to the fact that He currently occupies the position that the former president's close collaborator led in 2023.
For this reason, Nobile was also responsible for the unit that on September 1, 2022 could not prevent
Fernando Sabag Montiel
from shooting Cristina in the face, fortunately without success.
In Villarruel
's environment ,
meanwhile, they tried to downplay the importance of the issue by justifying that "Nobile is in the Custody Department but is not head of security" of the Division, which is supervised by Deputy Commissioner
Juan Ramón Ontivero.
This last Federal Police officer would have arrived at that position at the urging of Minister
Patricia Bullrich (Security).
In any case, in the force they argue that due to a matter of hierarchy the head of the Department
has "ancestry"
over the Division chief of his sector.
Changes in the custody of former presidents
In any case, the news came to light days after the presidential spokesperson,
Manuel Adorni
, tried to rule out the plan to reduce custody, as this newspaper revealed, which was read as
another sign of "adjustment to caste
. "
By a decree by A. Fernández published hours before leaving power, the security service for former heads of state depends on Casa Militar which, in the official organizational chart, is under the umbrella of the General Secretariat of the Presidency.
However, this newspaper was able to confirm that the Secretariat led by
Karina Milei
is working on the design of a "
decree" to "normalize"
the service that escorts the former presidents.
What is sought, on the one hand, is to transfer the financing to the Ministry of Security, make it more efficient and also establish guidelines on its scope.
"The system must be adapted to a protocol
," indicated an official source consulted.
An attempt is also made to define which relatives of the former presidents the service should benefit.
The thing is that today the system designed to protect former presidents has a very differentiated deployment:
Cristina Kirchner
has permanent custody of 120 members of the Federal Police,
Mauricio Macri
, with 30, and
Alberto Fernández
, with 3 who, in the latter case, cover in Spain, logically adding more onerous travel expenses.
Close to the President's influential sister, they had explained that the proposed modifications were also
intended to reduce the spending that the national State allocates
to solve a protection system that the ruling party clearly considers "oversized."
Meanwhile, Cristina's collaborator was surprised by the changes under study.
"The problems of Argentines must be discussed. Discussing this is science fiction. It delays," he said.