The Chamber of Senators approved the bill that modifies articles 13, 25 and 28 of Law 1,015/1,997, “What prevents and represses illicit acts aimed at legitimizing money or goods”, modified by Laws 3783/2009 and 6797/2021.
Now it goes back to the Chamber of Deputies where 41 votes are needed for the ratification of its own version. Otherwise, the version of the Senate will be sanctioned.
SPEAKERS
Hugo Richer, national senator for the Guasu Front, questioned that the Chamber of Deputies distorted the project by changing the control institution from Seprelad to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC).
Desirée Masi, a national senator for the PDP, questioned that Deputies tried to fool citizens by putting the MIC as the entity in charge of control.
“They did exclusively to say that they made some change. The production part will control but not the distribution”, he questioned.
Jorge Querey, national senator for the Guasu Front, expressed for his part that the illicit trafficking of cigarettes, like drug trafficking, handles one of the fundamental factors, low-denomination cash. Coins from another country in border areas. This has not been subject to suspicious operations.
Esperanza Martínez, also a senator of the FG, commented that smoking represents a social, health problem and catastrophic health expenses.
“We are about to go back into debt for G. 400 billion in Health. People don’t have intensive care, they don’t have a catheter. We are responsible for 30% of cigarette smuggling in the world. We must become a country that offers guarantees that you can live better, ”she urged.
VOTES
Only nine legislators were absent, they went; Carlos Filizzola, Arnaldo Franco, Rodolfo Friedmann, Zulma Gómez, Blas Llano, Hermelinda Alvarenga, Blanca Ovelar, Silvio Ovelar and Fernando Silva Facetti. The rest of the 36 voted in favor of the initiative.
LISTS OF OBLIGATED SUBJECTS (SO)
The Obliged Subject (SO) is each natural and/or legal person subject to the obligations established in the national AML/CFT laws.
Law No. 3783/09, amending Law No. 1015/97, establishes in Art. 13.- Obliged subjects the following 19 entities: Banks, finance companies, insurance companies, exchange houses; stock exchanges, investment companies, mandate companies, mutual investment and retirement fund administrators, cooperatives, real estate companies, those that operate games of chance; non-profit organizations (NPOs), pawn shops, government entities; non-financial activities and professions, natural or legal persons who habitually engage in financial intermediation, trading in jewelry, stones and precious metals, art objects and antiques, philatelic or numismatic investment; and, those that carry out acts of commerce in general, that imply transfers of money or values, whether formal or informal, in accordance with the provisions of this law.
