MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Thursday, July 2nd 2026 - 22:12 UTC
Last week, federal prosecutor Sergio Mola had requested the detention of Insaurralde and Cirio, arguing there was a risk they might alter or hide evidence
The former cabinet chief of Buenos Aires province and ex-mayor of Lomas de Zamora, Martín Insaurralde, asked the courts not to use as evidence the video in which his ex-wife, television host Jesica Cirio, appears alongside stacks of dollars in the closet of the house they shared, as part of a case for alleged illicit enrichment and money laundering. The motion, filed before federal judge Luis Armella, mirrors the one Cirio herself had made days earlier; she also faces a pending order to give testimony.
Insaurralde's defense argued that the material originated in a “hacking” of Cirio's personal devices and that there were suspicions the images had been edited, and therefore asked that the exclusionary rule be applied, holding that the absence of a chain of custody makes it impossible to certify its authenticity. The video, released in June by the newspaper La Nación, shows the host handling boxes, bags and a suitcase with dollars; investigators preliminarily estimate it could amount to several million.
