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Argentina to contact Brazil, Switzerland on alleged spy chief bribes
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS | Tue Feb 7, 2017 | 4:14pm EST
Argentina to contact Brazil, Switzerland on alleged spy chief bribes
A federal judge in Argentina has moved to request information from Brazil and Switzerland to determine if President Mauricio Macri's spy chief received bribe money from builder Odebrecht in 2013, state-run news agency Telam reported on Tuesday.
While corruption charges have swirled around former President Cristina Fernandez in Argentina, the investigation of National Intelligence Agency Director Gustavo Arribas raises questions about a top official in Macri's year-old administration.
Prosecutors are investigating whether a transfer of $600,000 from a Brazilian money changer to a Swiss bank account in Arribas' name was a bribe from Odebrecht, the Brazil-based conglomerate at the center of a global graft scandal.
Arribas denies taking bribes or having any link to Odebrecht. He said in a statement he was living in Sao Paulo in 2013 and had declared all of his bank accounts to Argentine authorities.
The events under investigation took place well before Macri was elected in November 2015.
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Argentina to contact Brazil, Switzerland on alleged spy chief bribes
A federal judge in Argentina has moved to request information from Brazil and Switzerland to determine if President Mauricio Macri's spy chief received bribe money from builder Odebrecht in 2013, state-run news agency Telam reported on Tuesday.
While corruption charges have swirled around former President Cristina Fernandez in Argentina, the investigation of National Intelligence Agency Director Gustavo Arribas raises questions about a top official in Macri's year-old administration.
Prosecutors are investigating whether a transfer of $600,000 from a Brazilian money changer to a Swiss bank account in Arribas' name was a bribe from Odebrecht, the Brazil-based conglomerate at the center of a global graft scandal.
Arribas denies taking bribes or having any link to Odebrecht. He said in a statement he was living in Sao Paulo in 2013 and had declared all of his bank accounts to Argentine authorities.
The events under investigation took place well before Macri was elected in November 2015.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-corruption-idUSKBN15M2GJ
