Argentina cops carry out raids in President's sister graft probe

BUENOS AIRES, Aug 30 (AFP): Argentine police on Friday raided the offices of the National Disability Agency and a pharmaceutical company at the heart of a corruption scandal embroiling President Javier Milei's influential sister.
The allegations against Karina Milei, her brother's right-hand woman and general secretary of the presidency, are the most damaging yet involving a member of the Argentine leader's inner circle.
The libertarian president and his sister were pelted with stones while campaigning for mid-term elections this week in a suburb of Buenos Aires, amid widespread anger over the affair.
Karina Milei is accused of receiving a three-percent cut on the amount paid by the National Disability Agency (Andis) for the purchase of medicine from Argentine pharma firm Suizo Argentina.
The allegations emerged in leaked audio recordings in which a man-identified in media reports as Diego Spagnuolo, director of the disability agency-is heard saying: "Karina gets three percent."
Spagnuolo was fired after the recordings became public.
Karina Milei has not publicly commented on the claims.