Gustavo Arribas

Gustavo Arribas was the Director-General of the Federal Intelligence Agency of Argentina. He was appointed to the position in December 2015.

Gustavo Arribas
In 2015
Director-General of the Federal Intelligence Agency of Argentina
In office December 2015 – ?

Career

Prior to heading the Federal Intelligence Agency, Arribas was an agent and broker for professional soccer players.[1][2]

Corruption allegations

Arribas was accused by Brazilian police of receiving $850,000 through a money-laundering scheme.[1]

Arribas was also investigated for possibly accepting a bribe of $600,000 from Odebrecht in 2013.[3]

References

1. Politi, Daniel; Londoño, Ernesto (March 1, 2018). "Argentina's Top Spy Accused in Brazil Corruption Case". The New York Times.
2. Roger Kittleson (12 June 2014). The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil. University of California Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-520-95825-8.
3. Boadle, Anthony (February 17, 2017). Milliken, Mary (ed.). "Latin American prosecutors join forces on Odebrecht bribes". Reuters. A federal judge in Argentina is seeking information from Brazil and Switzerland to determine whether President Mauricio Macri’s spy chief, Gustavo Arribas, took a $600,000 bribe from Odebrecht in 2013 when he was a private citizen.