Overview

• The Tribunal Oral en lo Criminal Federal de Bahía Blanca convicted Alejandro Salvador Cantaro as a primary participant in drug trafficking aggravated by his status as a public official.
• The court imposed a six-year prison term, a fine of 472 fixed units and a ten-year absolute and special disqualification from holding public office.
• An order for Cantaro’s detention was issued but stayed until the sentence is final and his defense can file an appeal within ten days.
• This ruling follows the 2024 revocation of his 2023 acquittal by the Federal Court of Cassation and the Supreme Court’s June dismissal of his defense’s last-resort challenge.
• Judges found that between March 2017 and April 2018 Cantaro shielded the Narcochetos 2 cartel by withholding wiretap requests, supplying operational intelligence and aiding his nephew’s flight from investigation.