The private security company Securitas admitted in court to having paid millionaire bribes to officials. The company accepted in court a series of improper payments to officials between 2014 and 2018, although cases have been investigated since 2012.
Renaper, AYSA, and SENASA, among the aforementioned agencies where the firm won to provide surveillance services. There are also agencies the Province of Buenos Aires, CABA, Entre Ros, and Tucumán. The confession was detailed in a file kept by federal judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado and which led to nine detainees and more than 50 raids across the country. The investigation began in 2020 when the company decided to denounce its own former executives because they abused and used the corporate structure, as well as their position in the market and the reputation of the group, “with the sole purpose of obtaining a benefit for themselves and, indirectly, for the companies they represented. The list of organizations where the company admitted paying bribes includes the National Registry of Persons (Renaper), the National Agency for Controlled Materials (Anmac), and the Aval Prefecture.