Ivana Bohdziewicz, a former secretary of Argentine Congressman Gerardo Milman from Juntos por el Cambio party, testified before the court that the deletion of information from her cellphone took place in an office belonging to Patricia Bullrich, a leader of the PRO party. Bohdziewicz also claimed that the deletion allegedly occurred with the intervention of Milman himself, who is linked to one of the leads being investigated in the case of the attempted murder of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Bohdziewicz, who was dismissed from her position earlier this year, accompanied the Congressman on August 30th at a bar where a witness of the case overheard him say, “when she’s killed, I’ll be on my way to the coast.” It’s worth noting that the former secretary had previously informed the court of her intention to expand her testimony, and a date of May 10th had been set. However, on Friday, she showed up at the Comodoro Py federal court accompanied by a lawyer, claiming that she had received pressure and wanted to testify spontaneously.

During her testimony, Bohdziewicz said that the deletion of the content of her cellphone was done by a presumed expert provided by Milman in offices attributed to Bullrich. She also claimed that the deletion was done in the presence of the Congressman and that the pressure to give her new testimony came from her colleague, Carolina Gómez Mónaco, who is also involved in the case. Bohdziewicz attributed the idea of deleting the content of their phones to Mónaco and doing it in the indicated offices to preserve their privacy.

According to Bohdziewicz, the deletion of her cellphone’s information occurred along with that of Mónaco’s and Milman’s phones in an office located on Avenida de Mayo at 900 in November of last year, after they had already given their initial testimony and were aware that their phones could be seized. In the first testimony, the prosecution team led by Cristina Kirchner’s lawyers, Marcos Aldazabal and José Manuel Ubeira, had requested the seizure of their phones, but the judge, María Eugenia Capuchetti, rejected the measure. The witness did not refer to any information being deleted concerning the attempted attack against the Vice President but rather information related to her privacy and work. However, if the manipulation of the evidence is confirmed, it could constitute a hypothesis of concealment.

During her previous testimony, Bohdziewicz had informed the prosecutor Rívolo that her cellphone contained conversations with Milman related to work but she had deleted all the messages and photos to protect her privacy. She clarified that she never spoke about anything related to the attack on the Vice President in terms of criminal participation in it. They had talked about the issue from the point of view of what was reported in the media.