The geopolitical and legal conflict over the radar installed at the "El Relincho" ranch in Tierra del Fuego province, owned by British and Irish capital, is far from over and has entered a phase of open corporate resistance.

On its last ordinary working day last Thursday the 25th, the Special Investigating Commission of the Legislature received in the committee room Dr. Gustavo F. González , head of the Court of First Instance in Civil and Commercial Matters No. 2 of the Southern Judicial District, in a meeting that the parliamentarians described as a key institutional contribution to the advancement of the case.

However, the conclusions reached during the hearing and the analysis of the case file raised red flags: the firm LeoLabs Argentina SRLhas mounted an aggressive legal and administrative strategy to maintain the radar in Tolhuin, defying the spirit of sovereign claims.

The corporation is resisting and seeking to reach the Supreme Court

After learning of the counter-offensive by the magistrate himself, the president of the Commission, Pablo Villegas (MPF) , was emphatic at the end of the meeting, stating that "it is clear that the company has no intention of leaving the Province or the radar operations."

The value of the ruling issued last May by Judge González lay in the fact that it went far beyond the mere corporate dissolution requested by the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ): the magistrate decreed the nullity of the granting of the authorization for strict reasons of public interest .

Given this scenario, and in a move that coincided with the legislative session itself, LeoLabs ' legal representative, Pablo Bilbao, appealed the ruling, filed a motion to recuse the judge, and formally reserved the right to refer the case to the federal courts , with the clear objective of forcing the discussion to be brought directly before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. The ruling is currently under review by the Civil Chamber.

An intact infrastructure without technical certification

One of the most worrying points that was debated within the body — in which legislators Villegas, Juan Carlos Pino, Raúl Von Der Thusen, Laura Colazo, Federico Sciurano, Natalia Graciania, Gisela Dos Santos and Matías Lapadula participated — is the lack of technical certainty about the real state of the English sensor installed in 2022.

While Villegas indicated that, according to the information available to the Commission, the radar is not currently operating, he cautiously admitted that " the Commission does not yet have a conclusive technical report certifying that the radar is out of operation." The only certainty is that the physical infrastructure and antenna array remain completely intact on the original site since the day of its installation, awaiting a definitive expert assessment.

The parallel battle in the National Cabinet Office

LeoLabs ' resistance extends beyond the courts of Tierra del Fuego. It has also come to light that the company is actively pursuing an appeal with the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers . Through this legal process, the British-owned firm seeks to overturn the cancellation of its original license, which was issued by the National Undersecretariat of Telecommunications. This confirms that LeoLabs remains active and is continuing to lobby federal authorities to recover its radio spectrum licenses.

A file of 5,000 pages and a deadline that is running

Given the complexity of the network and the company's counteroffensive, the members of the Investigating Commission agreed on a working method focused on the exhaustive study of the extensive accumulated documentary material, which already amounts to approximately 5,000 pages .

Although the parliamentary body has set an estimated completion date for September, Villegas himself has already admitted that this deadline may fall short and did not rule out the possibility of requesting a formal extension from the Chamber depending on the volume of activity and the implications of the investigation.