$LIBRA case: Two lawmakers seek status as plaintiffs and testimony from Cerimedo’s former partner

The $LIBRA investigation has taken a new turn after two lawmakers asked to enter the case as plaintiffs and requested testimony from Nadia Beller, the former partner of consultant Fernando Cerimedo.

Mónica Frade and Maximiliano Ferraro, members of the Civic Coalition-ARI, filed their request after the Federal Chamber in Buenos Aires confirmed the exclusion of five investors who had sought recognition as injured parties. The lawmakers served on a congressional commission that examined the launch of the cryptocurrency promoted by President Javier Milei, whose price rose and fell sharply within hours and triggered fraud complaints.

They want Beller to testify about the alleged financing methods behind the case. Beller is hospitalized in Bolivia after what she reported to authorities there as an attempted murder by Cerimedo, who worked for years around Milei’s political circle.

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an organized plan from the highest levels of government

The filing came hours after Chamber 1 of the Criminal Chamber of Comodoro Py upheld the investors’ exclusion. The measure followed a request by lobbyist Mauricio Novelli, who argued that no fraud had occurred and that investors had knowingly accepted the risks of an unregulated memecoin market. The article says that argument matches the position advanced by the Casa Rosada since the beginning of the case.

The judges wrote that the criminal hypothesis involving “an organized plan from the highest levels of government” had become “diluted.” With the investors excluded, prosecutor Eduardo Taiano remains solely in charge of advancing the investigation. Frade and Ferraro argue that the alleged conduct may violate public ethics rules covering bribery, influence peddling and incompatible negotiations. Their filing alleges that Karina Milei may have sought and received dollar payments to arrange private meetings with the president, access to government sites and official events, and other benefits for private individuals. They link that alleged system to Milei’s post promoting $LIBRA.

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diluted