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Gustavo Arribas

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Gustavo Arribas
In 2015
Director-General of the Federal Intelligence Agency of Argentina
In office
10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019
PresidentMauricio Macri
DeputySilvia Majdalani
Preceded byOscar Parrilli
Succeeded byCristina Caamaño
Personal details
Born25 November 1958
Buenos Aires
Political partyRepublican Proposal

Gustavo Arribas (born 25 November 1958)[1] is an Argentine scribe and politician. He was the Director-General of the Federal Intelligence Agency of Argentina. He headed the agency from December 2015[2] to December 2019.

Career

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Prior to heading the Federal Intelligence Agency, Arribas was an agent and broker for professional soccer players.[3][4]

Corruption allegations

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Arribas was accused by Brazilian police of receiving $850,000 through a money-laundering scheme.[3]

Arribas was also investigated for possibly accepting a bribe of $600,000 from Odebrecht in 2013.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Clarín, Redacción (3 December 2015). "Perfil: "El Negro" Arribas, del Grupo Pádel y con negocios en el fútbol". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  2. ^ Cronista.com (12 December 2015). "En inusual Boletín Oficial, el Gobierno designó funcionarios en la AFI y la Sindicatura General". www.cronista.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  3. ^ a b Politi, Daniel; Londoño, Ernesto (March 1, 2018). "Argentina's Top Spy Accused in Brazil Corruption Case". The New York Times.
  4. ^ Roger Kittleson (12 June 2014). The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil. University of California Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-520-95825-8.
  5. ^ Boadle, Anthony (February 17, 2017). Milliken, Mary (ed.). "Latin American prosecutors join forces on Odebrecht bribes". Reuters. A federal judge in Argentina is seeking information from Brazil and Switzerland to determine whether President Mauricio Macri's spy chief, Gustavo Arribas, took a $600,000 bribe from Odebrecht in 2013 when he was a private citizen.