D’Alessio case: about to go to trial, one of the defendants appeared with a bullet to the head in the bathroom of his home

He did not answer calls. His ex-wife went to the apartment he rented on Tagle Street, a few meters from Las Heras. Upon entering, he saw the bathroom door ajar, but he did not enter. She left frightened to file a complaint at the police station. The police arrived on the scene within minutes. In the bathroom was the body. He was shot in the head. The dead was Edward Ariel Menchi, aka “Spark”, designated as depositary of the false lawyer Marcelo D’Alessio and one of those who had to stand trial when the date was set for the debate. It all happened on January 19, the anniversary of the death of the prosecutor Alberto Nisman, also found shot in the head in the bathroom of his home, they revealed to GlobeLiveMedia judicial sources.

The news was now known in the file kept by the Federal oral court 8, to try D’Alessio along with two former Buenos Aires police officers, a former spy and a prosecutor, among other defendants, charged with illicit association, extortion and money laundering. Menchi, who was a witness in the case of the triple crime of General Rodríguez, was one of the implicated to sit on the bench. But his defender, María Laura Ibarra, reported this week in the courts of Comodoro Py 2002 the death of his client. He provided the death certificate: “cranio-encephalic wounds by projectile”.

as much as he could tell GlobeLiveMedia the cause which investigates the death of Menchi is in full trial at the prosecutor’s office of Edgar Orfila and the judge William Hoarse. The autopsy carried out by the Forensic Corps did not reveal any elements indicating the involvement of third parties. However, various circumstances have yet to be determined. What revolver did you use? How did it come into your hands? Why would he want to kill himself?

The former couple assured that Menchi had been very saddened since they had separated at the beginning of 2020 and that he had expressed his wish to die. However, she herself admitted that she did not take it seriously. In the cause is the version that there would be videos where he says goodbye to his children, but that they did not contribute to the cause, according to the sources consulted by this media.

But as these circumstances are clarified, it is the judge Sabrina Namer, President of the Federal Oral Tribunal 8, which left this death exposed to be analyzed in a particular scenario: He is the second defendant in this investigation to appear “suicided” and where there are the most deaths and suspicious threats.

On the night of September 21, 2021, a spring day, Carlos Linani former customs employee also indicted in the D’Alessio case, appeared dead in his apartment at 6000 Soler Street, in the neighborhood of Palermo. A strong smell of gas rose from her apartment, and residents of the building called 911. The house was locked, the keys placed in the lock inside and not picked.

Liñani’s body was lying in the living room. Next to him was a plastic pipe that was connected at one end to a flexible gas hose in the kitchen and to a rubber mask at the other. Windows and doors were sealed from the inside. Letters were found that the man allegedly wrote to his relatives and close friends.

The investigation by prosecutor Adrián Peres was not closed just like that. Indeed, at the request of the federal prosecutor of Dolores Juan Pablo Curi the judge Martin Bava he ordered searches of the house to seize any material that could be linked to the D’Alessio case. After this raid, things were missing. The prosecutor’s office in charge of the investigation lodged a complaint for theft in order to clarify these circumstances.

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Amid these two suspicious deaths in the case, Judge Namer pointed out: “It should be noted that very close to the start of this investigation, another death occurred in equally dubious circumstances: that of Natacha Jaitt”.

In the early morning of February 23, 2019, the actress and radio host appeared dead in a party hall in La Ñata during the Tigre party. He had arrived a while ago and had warned that he was going to a room. They found her lying on the bed. According to the autopsy, he died as a result of a cocaine overdose. For the prosecutor’s office of Tigre, in charge of the investigation, it is not a question of a violent death. However, Ulysses Jaitt her brother, insists on the fact that her sister was murdered and demands the opening of Natacha’s electronic devices, where – she assures – she kept important information on sensitive subjects.

In the D’Alessio case, there is a file identified as “Operation Jaitt” where it is assured that D’Alessio would have carried out tasks of collecting information -identified by the Provincial Memory Commission as “counterintelligence”-, after the participation of Natacha Jaitt in a program of Mirtha Legrand, where the star spoke about different personalities from politics, journalism and entertainment who would be linked to cases of sexual abuse and pedophilia suffered by reserve players of Club Atlético Independiente.

According to the filing that incorporates D’Alessio’s accusation, the bogus lawyer was investigating Jaitt, Mirtha Legrand, her grandson and producer Ignacio Viale, late prosecutor Eduardo Miragaya, former spy and nightclub owner Raúl Martins , the head of the NGO La Alameda Gustavo Vera and the sports commentator Gabriel Anello. In the download section Icloud photos of D’Alessio were found documents related to Natacha Jaitt: among them, photographs of her identity card and an immigration report.

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The D’Alessio case rocked politics in the summer of 2019 and splashed the federal prosecutor’s office Carlos Stornelli, who at the time was promoting the cause of the notebooks. At that time, a businessman assured in the federal court of Dolores that D’Alessio was asking him for money to arrange with Stornelli so that he was not one of the detainees of this mega-cause , after the confessions of a repentant man who never existed .

while the deputy Elisa Carrion denounced an operation to turn business notebooks and provided the transcripts of what was the basis of the so-called cause Operative puff, the then judge of Dolores Alejo Ramos Padille He moved forward with an investigation and the clues were further deepened during the raid on the bogus lawyer’s house. When it was D’Alessio’s turn to testify, he said the whole thing was “just a bed” and that he was carrying out an “operation” that a former police officer linked to the AFI had entrusted to him. In return, they promised to appoint him director of complex affairs at AFI.

The file, which began at the end of the government of Mauricio Macri, was developed by the President Alberto Fernandez and the vice president Cristina Kirchnerbecause -according to they raised- it showed how the intelligence services act in justice.

D’Alessio has been in prison since this summer of 2019. On several occasions it has been speculated that he could become repentant. In the meantime, he was sentenced to four years in prison for attempted extortion in the so-called “Trafficker case” by the Federal Oral Court 2, the same one which tried Cristina Kirchner. In his last words, during this trial, D’Alessio said: “Ideally, I should kill myself”. as much as he could tell GlobeLiveMedia, for much of his detention, D’Alessio was isolated. Even, in his cell, they would have left him a rope.

But if there was any doubt, Judge Namer left it exposed in her resolution signed this week: “From all that is explained added to the circumstances which also arise from the file and from which situations of threat towards other defendants in their place of detention having opportunely led the magistrates in office to adopt security measures maintained for a long period, I cannot fail to note that within the framework of this procedure, there have been various violent deaths and threatening situations”, the letter to which he consented Infobase.

“Nor can I omit the reference to the atypical of this type of event, not only by the mode of production of deaths, but also by the quantity, in the context of a file relatively limited in number of defendants”, he added. Faced with this, he managed to inform the colleagues who follow the investigations into these causes of the possibility of consulting the D’Alessio file to see if they “can bring elements of interest for their respective actions”.

The judge ordered officials from the detention units where D’Alessio and financier Aldo Sánchez are staying to issue a statement to find out their terms of arrest. He also summoned the head of the Protected Witnesses and Special Purposes Division of the Argentine Federal Police and ordered to reinforce the security of Roberto Barreiro, who is under house arrest.

The oral trial in the D’Alessio case still has no date. As this media was able to consult, neither the prosecutor Marcelo Colombo nor the TOF judges responsible for Namer, Gabriela Lopez Inguez and Nicholas Toselli managed to receive all the educational information. The case, which was handled in Dolores, moved to Comodoro Py 2002, at the end of 2021 by order of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation. After twists and turns, the case was filed in the court of Julián Ercolini, which brought the case to trial.

The defendants are D’Alessio, the former police officers Ricardo Oscar Bogoliuk there Norberto Aníbal Degastaldi, former intelligence officer Rolando Hugo BarreiroMercedes prosecutor suspended Jean Ignace Bidone; and Edward Ariel Menchi, now deceased. Also included were defendants Aldo Sánchez, Pablo Bloise, Marcelo Patricio González Carthy de Gorriti, Mariano Rubén Díaz, involved in a money laundering conspiracy; and the former prefect Franco Pini.

Prosecutor Stornelli, who was being prosecuted by Justice Dolores, is not on the list of people sent to trial by Ercolini. His situation continues to be discussed in the investigation, with two of the eight facts originally attributed to him in the prosecution signed by Ramos Padilla. Mar del Plata prosecutors Juan Manuel Pettigiani and Cassation Raúl Pleé had asked to remove him from the case when the case was pending in Dolores.

Related to this case that he handled in Dolores, two other related investigations were also filed in the Ercolini court: espionage in the so-called AMBA bases and the ARA San Juan case, for which the former president was prosecuted . Mauricio Macri and AFI management. The Federal Chamber revoked these prosecutions. In the case of Macri, he was directly dismissed. The decision is appealed.