The Minister of Defense of Alberto Fernández's government blamed the management of the governor of Tierra del Fuego, Gustavo Melella , for not having dismantled the radar installed by the British and Irish subsidiary of the American LeoLabs , north of the municipality of Tolhuin, and also; that they were in charge of hiding "the file from the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Defense."

"That procedure should have had the backing of someone other than the Ministry of Communications, but it did not. Nobody consulted the Foreign Ministry or the Ministry of Defense," he added.

“For example, the authorization that it had was provincial, not national. That is to say, the authorization for the inspection of legal entities, the registration of the company Leolab, was not done at a national level, it was done in Tierra del Fuego, in a process that was brief. Afterwards, the electricity is provided by the province of Tierra del Fuego. The optical fiber is provided by the province of Tierra del Fuego,” Jorge Taiana enumerated, during a radio interview conducted yesterday Thursday by the journalists of FM Origen of Río Grande.

"At that time, to disarm it, what I had to do was to tell the Undersecretary of Communications to the province, disarm it. I don't know if they ordered it, but I do know that it was not completely deactivated," said the former minister.

Specifically, Taiana was referring to the Undersecretariat of Telecommunications and Connectivity of the Office of the Chief of Ministers , from which on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, the governor of Tierra del Fuego was asked to "dismantle" the radar or ground station, based on the danger and implications manifested in the Ministry of Defense Report of August 3 of the same year.

"There is an action by the province that took all the steps to make it work and that failed to take the steps to make it completely inactive," Taiana said.