Weekly Report - 06 August 2015 (WR-15-31)

It was not the first time that Aníbal Fernández, President Cristina Fernández’s abrasive cabinet chief, has been accused of involvement in drug-trafficking and murder. But the allegations, broadcast on 2 August, that he was ultimately responsible for the ‘triple crimen’, the murder of three people in 2008 over control of the ephedrine trade, came just a week before he contests the primary to run as the Frente para la Victoria (FPV) candidate in the Buenos Aires gubernatorial elections.