The Federal Investigations Agency (AFI)
denounced espionage of more than 400 journalists during government of former Argentine president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019).
Cristina Caamano, denounced former President Mauricio Macri this Sunday for illegally spying on 403 journalists accredited at the G-20 Summit held in late 2018.
The complaint filed with the judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi, the inspector Caamano pointed out that last January 2019, he found an AFI safe that had files from 403 journalists, 28 academics and 59 social and business leaders in the country.
In the files were found photographs, names, the institution where the spied citizens worked and rigorous information on publications they made on their social network accounts. Other characteristics found in the files are political activism, sympathy or antipathy to the Macri Government, personal details of unions, bank accounts and even family property.
Caamano detailed in his complaint that the cards classified the names of the spies illegally with colors, yellow, green and red to identify political inclinations of the journalists who participated in the G-20 Summit in 2018.
Organizations of journalists regretted the fact that arose during the Macri administration, “the Argentine Federation of Press Workers and the Association of Graphic Reporters of Argentina, express their rejection of the espionage carried out against journalists by the Federal Intelligence Agency during the Government of Mauricio Macri “they added.
