Milei got involved in the project’s launch by sharing its Solana contract on social media and disclosing that the private token would incentivize the Argentine economy’s growth by funding small Argentine companies. After he deleted this post hours later, when Libra’s price dumped, he stressed that he had no links to the project.
The president highlighted that at the center of this probe fallout was a “political and media operation whose sole aim was to damage the presidential office for coup-mongering political ends.”
Milei declared that large press groups in Argentina, including La Nacion, used the case as a political weapon to extort the government “in exchange for dodging taxes.”
“To the bribed journalists, mercenaries of lies, and serial fabricators of operations like Hugo Alconada Mon, Carlos Pagni, Paulino Rodríguez, Natalia Volosin, Novaresio, and all the others who exploited this issue: who’s going to clean up all the garbage they spread now?” Milei concluded.
The president’s acquittal spurred reactions from some who criticized the direction of the now-closed probe. Maximiliano Ferraro, national deputy and former head of the Libra Congressional Commission, which recommended probing Milei for misconduct, highlighted that not even a single person was called to give statements, accusing federal judge Marcelo Martinez de Giorgi and public prosecutor Eduardo Taiano of hiding and throwing evidence away, slowing the probe.
“They never explained the dozens of meetings that Libra promoters held in Casa Rosada and Quinta de Olivos, the crypto transactions executed before and after meeting the president, and the calls between the involved on the day Libra was launched,” Ferraro concluded, labeling all the involved as criminals.
