Money Laundering in Argentina’s Triple Frontier

Author: Mila Lostao

Editors: Pranav A Menon, Chi Chu & Chiara Caterina Gatti

Argentina's financial stability is threatened by illicit funds entering through the Triple Frontier, the border where Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil converge. Criminal networks use this border for cash-intensive businesses, trade-based laundering and front companies to conceal and move money.

This policy brief examines Argentina’s relationship with local businesses in Puerto Iguazú, the viability of AI-based monitoring on import-export trade, and why it should strengthen the trilateral financial-intelligence sharing with Paraguay and Brazil.

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