Scandal at the Pink House: Adorni's Secretary Confessed That Bettina Paid 8 Million for Sheets in Cash

The scandal surrounding Manuel Adorni, former Cabinet chief of Javier Milei, added a new explosive chapter this Wednesday: his private secretary, Gisela Kocsis, testified as a witness in the case for alleged illicit enrichment and dropped a bombshell: the 8 million pesos in sheets and mattresses under investigation were paid in cash by Bettina Angeletti, the former official’s wife.

Kocsis, who worked closely with Adorni in the Presidential Spokesperson’s Office, acknowledged the purchase of $8,183,303.25 at the store Rosen The Store, the same one that had come to light from an invoice found on the phone of contractor Matías Tabar. But the secretary was clear: the one who showed up to pay in cash was not her or Adorni, but Angeletti. And it was not the only controversial acquisition.

Twenty days later, according to the witness, pillows were purchased for about $400,000, also paid in cash. And as if that were not enough, in May 2025 Kocsis managed the purchase of a dishwasher and a Whirlpool washing machine for approximately $3,100,000, intended for Adorni’s house in the Indio Cuá country club in Exaltación de la Cruz. That transaction she would have covered with her own credit card, while Adorni gave her the cash.

Kocsis’s account adds to that of Luis Aluju, Government Information Coordinator and lifelong friend of Adorni, who also testified as a witness. Aluju has held an extension of the former official’s credit card for eleven years. From the Mercado Libre report comes the purchase of a projector for $3,600,000, paid for with two cards in Aluju’s name. The witness maintained that, although the transaction was made with Adorni’s user, the product would have been delivered to an apartment on Asamblea Street.

For the Justice Department, all these purchases were intended to equip Adorni’s house in the Indio Cuá country club. Tabar had stated that the official spent US$245,000 in cash and without an invoice on renovations. The statements of Kocsis and Aluju add to those of Laura Schiuma, General Director of Presidential Activities of the Spokesperson’s Office, who had acknowledged days earlier that she lent her card to Adorni to buy a gaming monitor for $2,185,000, money that was later returned to her in cash.

The overall figure for these expenditures also began to take shape in the case file: according to what the prosecutor’s office was able to reconstruct, Adorni spent $139 million with credit cards between December 2023, when Javier Milei’s government took office, and March of this year, when he was still head of the Cabinet. These monthly expenditures would have frequently exceeded his salary: by the end of 2025 he earned about $3.5 million, while his expenses ranged between $4 and $6 million.

Prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita now awaits the final technical report from the General Directorate of Economic and Financial Advisory in Investigations (DAFI), which will evaluate the assets of Adorni and his wife, as a preliminary step to a possible summons for asset justification. Following Adorni’s resignation as Cabinet chief, the Casa Rosada will initiate an ex officio investigation to look into alleged irregularities involving the former official and employees of the Spokesperson’s Office. The current head of the area, Adrián Ravier, said in his first press conference at Casa Rosada: «Yes, of course. We are just arriving, but of course all these things are being evaluated, analyzed, and so on.»

Meanwhile, the question hanging in the air is: how could an official who earned just over 3 million pesos spend up to 6 million per month? The answers, for now, lie with the Justice Department.

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