The government has created a registry to "strengthen" the system of prevention and fight against terrorism – Telam

The Government today created the Public Register of Persons Related to Terrorist Acts and their Financing (RePET), to "strengthen" the system of prevention and counter-terrorism on the eve of the 25th anniversary of AMIA attack.

The measure was taken by President Mauricio Macri by Decree 489, published this Wednesday in the Official Journal.

Although the resolution does not mention the Lebanese organization Hezbollah – designated by the Argentine judicial system as participating in the attack against the AMIA of July 18, 1994, which killed 85 people – it is implicitly involved in the recall of the presidential decree it is "any natural person, legal entity or entity on which the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has ordered the administrative freezing of badets".

On Monday, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said at the TN channel's signal that President Macri would sign the decree that defines Hezbollah as a terrorist organization with the aim of "healing a very important injury".

"This organization – explained – will remain an organization condemned in Argentina for its terrorist acts, symbolically condemned, because the sentence can be made only by justice, but it can not have any type of badet because it frozen and , of course, they will be banned from entering the country. "

The repetition

RePET will operate within the Ministry of Justice and will aim to "provide access to and exchange of information on human persons, legal persons and entities related to acts of terrorism and / or their financing, and facilitate national and international cooperation to prevent, combat and eradicate terrorism and its financing ".

Similarly, the register will be "publicly accessible with the scope established by the Ministry of Justice, safeguarding data protection by relevant security measures and determining the form of access to information", adds the text signed by Macri, the chief of staff, Marcos Peña, and the ministers Germán Garavano (Justice), Patricia Bullrich (Security) and Jorge Faurie (Foreign Affairs).

The decree recalls that the Ministry of Justice and the FIU "warned of the possibility of improving technical compliance with the recommendation of the FATF – Group of International Action on Financial Action, which fight against the financing of terrorism – in terms of targeted financial sanctions related to terrorism financing terrorism in accordance with UN Council resolutions ".

In addition, he notes that "the initiative of the country provides the possibility of also register all precedents and relevant procedural acts related to the investigations of criminal proceedings in which the participation of persons or d & # 39; human entities to acts of terrorism or acts of terrorism is the subject of an investigation ". in your financing "

In this sense, "it is clearly and uniformly established that any registration in the RePET will import the freezing of the badets of the human person, a legal entity or entity", as well as "the obligation to report suspicious transactions of financing of terrorism by subjects forced "by the regulation and the impediment to entry into the country in the case of foreigners".