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 broke out after the connection he maintains with drug trafficker Fred Machado was revealed. In the last few hours, an outrageous tweet in which he targeted 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 Bs As. Drugs for everyone", Espert wrote in July 2015.

As a result of the tweet going viral, several users on social networks repudiated the message and left various messages: "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, maintains a connection with drug trafficker Fred Machado. The Texas Justice was the one who pointed to Espert after having received the sum of U$S 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 why he received the transfer. "It was for a contract with a mining company linked to Fred Machado", he also added that the payments ""were not campaign or in the exercise of public function", but product of his "private activity".

Who is Fred Machado

Federico Andrés Machado, better known as "Fred"; is an "entrepreneur" who among other things was dedicated to drug trafficking in his own planes that, in turn, he 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 context of the case FGR 2609/2021 "Machado Federico Andrés s/ extradition". The American prosecution demonstrated that there was at least one payment made by these dangerous criminals to José Luis Espert.

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