Overview
- Former BCRA head Miguel Ángel Pesce said most 2022–2023 cases over alleged irregular dollar trades arose from complaints the central bank filed after internal audits.
- Separate judicial inquiries led by María Servini, María Eugenia Capuchetti and Sebastián Casanello prompted searches at banks, exchange houses, finance firms and private residences.
- Pesce outlined the administrative process for FX violations as a sequence of warning, formal proceeding, suspension and potential penalties.
- He said 136 exchange operators were shut during his term and 15 more at the start of the current government, and that fines initiated then are now being applied.
- Pesce emphasized that the Economy Ministry did not take part in these controls and he rejected any connection between these cases and investigations into AFA management.