Weekly Report - 18 July 2013 (WR-13-28)

At press time Ricardo Jaime, a former transport minister (2003-2009) was still on the run, following a court order for his arrest on corruption charges on 12 July. Also under severe public scrutiny is the new head of the army, General César Milani, the subject of last week’s popular investigative TV programme, Periodismo Para Todos. The presenter, Jorge Lanata, alleged Milani participated in some of the human rights abuses committed by the dictatorship during the 1980s. Lanata also posed the question of how a man in the employ of the state since the age of 19 had amassed such a large personal fortune.