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Milei’s Congressional Candidate Drops Out After Illicit Funding Revelations - teleSUR English

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Argentine businessman accused of drug trafficking provided $150,000 in support to Jose Luis Espert. On Tuesday, Argentine businessman Federico Machado, accused of drug trafficking and facing an extradition request from the U.S. Justice Department, confirmed that he financed Jose Luis Espert’s 2019 presidential campaign. Espert resigned on Sunday from running as a candidate for President Javier Milei’s Freedom Advances Party in the Oct. 26 legisl…

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President Javier Milei held it until the last minute, and said he had no doubt about his "honesty", but this Tuesday the Justice has decided to impute the former official candidate José Luis Espert for the crime of money laundering, which is being investigated for alleged links with drug trafficking.Until last Sunday, the politician was the great bet of Casa Rosada in the face of the legislative elections on October 26, as he headed the list by …

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Prosecutor Federico Domínguez promoted a criminal investigation against the national deputy, who resigned on Sunday from his candidacy for the Alliance La Libertad Avanza in the province of Buenos Aires

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José Luis Espert is really complicated with Justice, despite his resignation from the candidacy for Freedom Avanza. In the midst of the narco-scandal because of his links with Fred Machado, which he confirmed, Eugenio Casielles, Buenos Aires legislator and co-founder of La Libertad Avanza, referred to the position adopted by Javier Milei. Casielles, assured that already in 2021 they warned Milei that he should remove Espert because of his allege…

enlineanoticias.com.ar Buenos Aires, 7 October (NA) — Fernando Domínguez, federal prosecutor of San Isidro, initiated an investigation against the national deputy for La Libertad Avanza (LLA) José Luis Espert, for alleged money laundering, according to the newspaper La Nación, in the context of the complaint filed by the candidate of Fuerza Patria (FP) Juan Grabois. This investigation is linked to the 200,000 dollars that Espert charged, in 2020…

The former deputy candidate for La Libertad Avanza is still struggling. A federal prosecutor investigates him for the alleged money laundering. The entry More Problems for Espert: He was charged for money laundering was first published in #BorderJournalism.

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Punto a Punto Diario broke the news in on Tuesday, October 7, 2025.
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