Mass money laundering arrives

Few people know that the building where AFIP currently operates It was the seat of the first national congress, facing the Plaza de Mayo. In the 1950s it was the center of intelligence operations of the various armed forces. Each plan was different, one was for the Army, another for the Navy and one more for the Air Force. José López Rega had his armored office there in the third government of Perón, between 1974 and 1975 and it is the same one that occupies the general administrator. Maybe those airs are what drives the ongoing investigation. And on this occasion, enthusiastic about the alleged 100 billion dollars of Argentine accounts in the United States, AFIP advised Sergio Massa to return to the path that Alfonso Prat Gay had previously taken: contact the authorities of the IRS, the AFIP of the United States, therefore, which under the international agreement known as FATCA, allows access to such information. The US technicians also unofficially commented that they have detected several accounts opened with Paraguayan passports that would belong to Argentines based on who the actual beneficiaries of those same accounts are. What has emerged so far is that it all depends on a political decision by the White House and that money laundering would be required in return to avoid being punished backward.

In the week of soybean clearance records for the new mechanism of the dollar at 200 dollars that they have devised to replace the one developed by Miguel Pesce and Mercedes Marcó del Pont, Guillermo Mitchel, the head of customs, informed exporters that there will be no other special dollar and that the measure expires on the 30th of this month. Mitchel, 45 and closely related to Massa, Miguel Angel Pichetto and the group of PJ governors, was the one who came up with the new scheme and had to defend it against K. According to reports, it was based on two arguments. One is that there is no other sector in Argentina that can put in $ 5,000 million in one month. The other is that soy is the only product that pays a 33% tax. Wine, for example, has a 5% retention which is subsequently restored.

The question between investment funds is whether Massa can change expectations. In Houston it was reported that the Minister of Economy goes day by day in the knowledge that the great battle is against inflation in an economy which, unlike the 2002 crisis, is indexed at 85%, which makes problem solving is very difficult. In private Massa confesses that his mission is to normalize and in this sense he has improved the relationship with Pesce at the Central Bank. When asked about his next steps, he said he has the support of Cristina, Máximo and Alberto, in that order.

In October, the Women Economic Forum (WEF) will be held at the Palacio San Martín. and a commercial mission of female entrepreneurs in Italy was organized together with the Farnesina. 30 female entrepreneurs from different provinces travel, accompanied by officials to promote exports of women-led companies. There are travel and tourism companies, water engineering companies, vegetable export companies, producers and food and textile industries and, within the latter, companies that not only produce, but also do it in a sustainable way by applying traceability. , developers of sustainable construction, waste treatment, education and blockchain technology, biofuel companies and digital art markets (NFTs), implementers of integrity programs and ISO standards, food distributors, queen bee farms and consultants specializing in projects with an impact on cities.

Gustavo Marques has been CEO of the German Puma in Argentina since 2015. In keeping with the World Cup, the third for sales in the world of sneakers is behind the selections of Uruguay, Ghana, Switzerland, Senegal and Morocco. But sneakers are not just sports but have become part of the usual footwear, even more so after the pandemic. To such an extent that most of its sales are sneakers for urban and running use. Unlike its competitors, Puma has its own factory in La Rioja, one of the two factories that Puma has in the world, together with the one that operates in the parent company in the German city of Herzogenarach. In 2020, it allocated $ 400 million for an expansion, which allowed it to register production and become independent, in part, of access to the dollars to import. 70% is of national production.