Welcome back to the podcast, bribes, swindle, or steel.

I'm Alexandra Rogi, and today we're talking about the new anti-bribery law in Argentina.

Joining me is the managing partner of Governance Latam, Trace's partner firm in Buenos Aires.

He's also a lecturer at San Andres University School of Law and a researcher at its Center for Anti-Corruption Studies.

This semester, he's also the Global Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU in Buenos Aires.

Guillermo Jorge, thank you for joining me today.

Thank you, Alexandra, for having me here.

Before we address the new law, can you perhaps start by providing a bit of background on

Argentina's record in this area, both on corruption generally and then on anti-bribery cases a little more specifically?

If you ask about cases, I would say the track record of corruption and

bribery cases in Argentina was pretty bad until two years ago. With the change in administration

in 2016, the federal criminal prosecutors and the criminal courts re-invigorated several ongoing investigations.

Since then, we note an improvement.

There are more than a dozen high-rank former officials in preventative detention awaiting trial.

There are some ongoing proceedings to remove the immunity of members of the

House and the Senate, including former President Kishner. We note also much more cooperation between

agencies in the executive, like the anti-corruption agency or the financial intelligence unit with the prosecutors,

which in Argentina do not belong to the executive. They are independent. So I would say that

with some ups and downs in some specific cases, the overall situation is much better now.

What you have described is prosecutions of corrupt government officials.

Have we seen any corporations caught up in this?

There are a few cases including business people, which is also unusual, because traditionally

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