Two retirees will testify on Wednesday in a case investigating Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni for alleged illicit enrichment. The pensioners are just two of the four women who lent him large sums of money to buy properties in loans overseen by a notary.
Adorni has been under scrutiny since last month after news broke about properties and expensive trips he took in the past two years, since becoming a public official in Javier Milei’s government. The expenses allegedly don’t match his declared estate or income.
The investigation is focused on finding if Adorni’s assets increased without justification since he became part of the national government in December 2023 — first as Milei’s spokesperson and, since late 2025, as chief of staff — and if he could afford the trips and new properties on his current income.
Some of those assets include an apartment in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito he bought in November 2025 for US$230,000, where he is currently living. The previous owners of that apartment were the two pensioners, who received US$30,000 and agreed that Adorni would pay the remaining US$200,000 within a year.
Adorni is set to pay the loan in installments with no interest rate. The deal was signed in a contract overseen by notary Adriana Nechevenko, who testified last week and spoke to the press about the details of the operation.
Nechevenko said in an interview with Infobae that the operation was done in this manner because Adorni is “an acquaintance or friend” of the son of one of the two women, as their children go to the same school “or something like that.”
“That’s why it’s logical that there are no interests,” Nechevenko said.
The notary said that there was no real estate agency involved and that it was the women’s idea to only receive part of the money upfront and receive the rest of the money within a year.
Asked about where Adorni got the funds to buy the apartment, Nechevenko said that “it was not mandatory for him to give explanations” to her about it. However, she said that the US$200,000 will come from the sale of another apartment in Buenos Aires where he used to live.
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