It was started by the driver Óscar Centeno, who had worked for public officials during the presidencies of Néstor and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and denounced an organized corruption scheme.
It is thought that bureaucrats from the Ministry of Planning extorted bribes, at least in part, in order to finance political campaigns.
[6] Several businessmen were detained as a result of the case, such as Carlos Wagner, leader of the Argentine Construction Chamber, and Gerardo Ferreyra from Electroingeniería.
[6] The sweep of detentions scared most of the involved businessmen, who quickly declared themselves guilty and provided testimony in exchange of leniency.
[6] José López, a former official of the ministry of Federal Planning, had been detained in 2016 when he was caught trying to hide bags containing millions of dollars in a convent.
The judge accepted it, and he was removed from the prison in Ezeiza (shared with other convicted officials of the Kirchner government) to an undisclosed location.
[8] The prosecutors of the case asked for a search and seizure raid at the houses of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
She has a house at the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, another one at Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, and another at El Calafate.
Unlike the other suspects, Fernández de Kirchner enjoys parliamentary immunity as a member of the Argentine Senate.
[4] The search was not expected to find money, but to compare the internal building design with the details mentioned in the notebooks.
Some folders included intelligence about people opposed by the Kirchners, such as the Clarín newspaper, the family of the late prosecutor Alberto Nisman and even judge Bonadio himself.
[10] The police also found and removed an item of hand-written mail from the 19th-century national hero José de San Martín to the Chilean Bernardo O'Higgins.