The national government modified on Wednesday the regulatory decree of the Financial Information Unit (UIF) in order to "
allow the creation of more delegations" of the organization in the interior of the country
, with which the city of Rosario, punished for the actions drug-trafficking criminal, may have a government office, as the governor of Santa Fe, Omar Perotti, had claimed.
"President Alberto Fernández modified the regulatory decree of the law creating the FIU to allow the creation of more delegations of the organization in the interior of the country. In this way, the city of Rosario will be able to have its delegation, as requested Governor Omar Perotti", announced the Chief of Staff,
Agustín Rossi
, on his Twitter account.
Rossi, with a militancy in Rosario, specified that decree 85/2023, published today in the Official Gazette, "will make it possible to increase efficiency in the fight against money laundering, often derived from drug trafficking."
According to the decree,
UFI headquarters may be established in each region of the country:
Central Region, made up of Córdoba and Santa Fe;
Cuyo Region, integrated by La Rioja, Mendoza, San Juan and San Luis;
Coastal Region, by Corrientes, Entre Ríos and Misiones;
North Region by Catamarca, Chaco, Formosa, Jujuy, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán;
Pampean Region, for Buenos Aires and La Pampa;
Patagonian Region, by Chubut, Neuquén, Río Negro, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands.
In the recitals of the decree, it is indicated that the operation of the Regional Agencies allows the FIU, among other issues, "to improve the tasks of analysis of financial information, supervision and cooperation with the regulated entities, public and private organizations; facilitate the sending and receiving information; collaborating in the prevention of illicit acts both by national and international organizations, originating from money laundering, its preceding crimes and the financing of terrorism".
Likewise, it is highlighted that "in recent years, the number of reports of suspicious operations with operations carried out in the city of Rosario has increased" and that "in a similar sense, said city is one of the ones with the largest number of subjects registered obligors have before the Financial Information Unit".
Within this framework, it is described that
Rosario
"currently stands as a
locality of vital importance
, not only in terms of population size and volume of commerce, but fundamentally, due to its
current fight against organized crime
in general and related crimes. with the illicit trafficking and commercialization of narcotics, provided for in Law No. 23,737, one of the most significant predicate offenses of the crime of money laundering, in particular".
It also states that from the report of the National Assessment of Money Laundering Risks of Argentina, "approved by Decree No. 653/22, a large number of criminal organizations based in Rosario
appear on the one hand,
and also criminal activity and
levels of violence above the national average.
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