Significance: The government led by President Mauricio Macri has been moving swiftly since the expiry of the hush agreement between Brazilian prosecutors and 78 former Odebrecht executives on 1 June, protecting the details of the continent-wide bribery scheme, which allegedly included US$35m of bribes paid to government officials in Argentina between 2007 and 2014 when former president Cristina Fernández (2007-2015), of the now opposition Frente para la Victoria (FPV, Kirchneristas) party, was in office. On 1 June, Macri accused Argentina’s attorney general, Alejandra Gils Carbó, of “inaction” in investigating the allegations that bribes were paid to secure some US$278m worth of infrastructure contracts. Garavano indirectly repeated the charge after his “successful” meeting with Sessions, saying that he had won a commitment from the US attorney general to expedite the process of information-sharing; Garavano said that the Argentine judiciary should have sought such a deal long before.
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