Government Opens to Legislate Change to Bank Secrecy via Judicial Means After Contested Vote in the Senate and Blow to the Aragua Train
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After the strategic struggle between government and opposition to President José Antonio Kast's mega-economic reform, the debate over the lifting of bank secrecy to confront organized crime gangs became the second big fight this week in the Senate.This measure, included in the reform that creates a financial intelligence subsystem, precisely to detect money laundering and other criminal financing actions, was put to the vote this Wednesday in th…
Along with a multidisciplinary team from the Treasury, Minister Quiroz and Assistant Secretary Rodriguez lead the analysis of an initiative to speed up access to banking information in organized crime investigations and money laundering. It is not yet defined whether an indication will be entered or there will be a new bill. What happened. Operation Tokyo, an investigation that allowed to disrupt an asset laundering network linked to the Aragua …
In Segundo Piso, former ministers Cristian Monckeberg (RN) and Ricardo Lagos Weber (PPD) discussed banking secrecy regulations as a tool for judicial management of cases linked to organized crime.
In the midst of the legislative discussion to allow the Public Ministry to access bank secrecy without a court order in organized crime investigations, the senator from Iquiqueña and vice-president of the Socialist Party, Danisa Astudillo, came out to take a stand after the revocation of nationality was announced thanks to a bank executive investigated for links to the Aragua Train. Astudillo warned that the episode should be understood as a war…
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