The Anticorruption Bureau ( es, Oficina Anticorrupción; OA) of

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

is a division of the Argentine

federal government A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-governin ...

tasked with auditing the country's public sector and introducing public policies oriented towards preventing

political corruption Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain. Forms of corruption vary, but can include bribery, lobbying, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, parochialism, patronage, in ...

. It is formally a decentralized agency reporting to the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. The bureau was created in 1999, as part of the inaugural measures of president

Fernando de la Rúa Fernando de la Rúa (15 September 19379 July 2019) was an Argentine politician and a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) political party who served as President of Argentina from 10 December 1999 to 21 December 2001. De la Rúa was born in ...

. The Bureau is led by the Secretary of Public Ethics, Transparency, and the Fight against Corruption. Since 2019, Félix Crous has held the position.

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* Federal law enforcement agencies of Argentina

1999 establishments in Argentina {{law-enforcement-agency-stub

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