Outrageous: social media digs up Espert’s old post against Diego Maradona | OneFootball

José Luis Espert is at the center of controversy in Argentine politics due to the scandal that erupted after his connection with drug trafficker Fred Machado was revealed. In recent hours, an outrageous tweet targeting Diego Armando Maradona for his support of Aníbal Fernández went viral.

"I find out from Mitre that Maradona gave his support to Aníbal Fernández in the Province of Buenos Aires. Drugs for everyone and all", Espert wrote in July 2015.

As a result of the viral tweet, several social media users condemned the message and left various comments: "Be careful fool, Diego is watching", "just you talking about drugs", were some of the most ingenious.

In the last few hours, it was revealed that the president of the Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and current candidate for Deputy in this month's elections for the province, has a connection with the drug trafficker Fred Machado. The Texas Justice Department pointed to Espert after having received the sum of US$ 200,000 and having used his planes and a van of his property in recent weeks.

Through a video, the candidate tried to distance himself from the scandal and explained the reason for receiving the transfer. "It was for a contract with a mining company linked to Fred Machado", he also added that the payments "were not for the campaign or in the exercise of public function", but the product of his "private activity".

Who is Fred Machado

Federico Andrés Machado, better known as "Fred", is an "entrepreneur" who among other things was involved in drug trafficking in his own planes, which he also rented to other entrepreneurs in the field, and who led a criminal gang recently dismantled in the United States by the Federal Court of the Eastern District of Texas.

He was arrested in April 2021 in Neuquén and is under house arrest in the city of Viedma awaiting his extradition to the United States in the case FGR 2609/2021 "Machado Federico Andrés s/ extradition". The US prosecution proved that at least one payment was made by these dangerous criminals to José Luis Espert.

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