The brand new Chief of Staff, Agustín Rossi, informed this Wednesday that the creation of an agency of the Financial Information Unit (FIU) in rosary beadsa city that is currently going through a wave of violence due to drug trafficking.
The president explained that President Alberto Fernández modified the regulatory decree of the law creating the UIF, to establish more of these delegations in rosary beads and others cities from the country.
Rossi also expressed that in this way he responds to the request of the governor of Santa Fe, Omar Perottiwho has also called for greater intervention by the national government to curb the wave of violence in rosary beads.
The FIU will serve to “increase efficiency in the fight against money laundering, often derived from drug trafficking,” as explained by the new Chief of Staff, who also reported that the measure was formalized through decree 85/2023 published today in the Official Gazette.
According to the regulations, “the Regional Agencies established by the FIU will have the function of receiving, complementing, and making compatible the information produced in their respective jurisdictions for its subsequent referral to the Central Office of the Financial Information Unit.”
In reference to the agency that will settle in rosary beadsthe resolution specifies that “in recent years, the number of reports of suspicious operations carried out in the city of rosary beadsprovince of Santa Fe”, which “constitutes it, in addition, one of the main national destination points for drug trafficking”.
because of it arises “a large number of criminal organizations based in the city of rosary beads as well as criminal activity and levels of violence above the national average”Therefore, the FIU will serve to “identify and assess the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing.”
Rosario citizens march against violence
This Wednesday neighbors of rosary beads They will mobilize today to the Monument to the Flag to demand peace in the face of the escalation of violence that it suffers the city. “rosary beads bleeds”, “rosary beads wants peace” and “rosary beads wants life” are the slogans of the march that will take place at 8:00 p.m.
The organizers of the event asked attendees to come with the Argentine flag as a symbol of struggle. According to data from the Public Safety Observatory, the city has registered 47 homicides so far this year. The latest crime occurred this Monday, when a 35-year-old man was shot during a wake for another citizen who had also been murdered.
