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Argentine politician
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) 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 to December 2019.

Career

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

Corruption allegations

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

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

References

  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. ^ 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.


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