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- ↑ "Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera de Argentina Home Page". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish).
- ↑ "Grupo Egmon". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish).
- 1 2 Ini, Candela (13 July 2022). "La UIF, cada vez más aislada del mundo: recibe menos de un tercio de la información que conseguía hace tres años". La Nacion.
- ↑ Santoro, Daniel (October 22, 2024). "El GAFI decide esta semana si sanciona a Argentina por la lucha contra el lavado de dinero". Clarin.
- ↑ "Outcomes FATF Plenary October 2024". FATF .
- ↑ "Casación confirmó el juicio oral a José Sbatella por revelar datos financieros de Clarín". Clarin. November 9, 2017.
- ↑ Delfino, Emilia (April 22, 2024). "El titular de la UIF durante el macrismo, nuevamente cuestionado por vínculos con un banco que debía investigar". El Diario AR (in Spanish).
- 1 2 "Juan Carlos Otero Nuevo Presidente de La Unidad de Informacion Financiera". argentina.gob.ar. December 7, 2021.
- ↑ "Ignacio Martín Yacobucci es el nuevo presidente de la Unidad de Información Financiera". February 16, 2024.
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