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This Friday, the national government made Sergio Darío Neiffert official as the new auditor of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI). This was established through the decree 505/2024 published today in the Official Gazette. “In the exercise of his functions, the Comptroller will have the powers of government and administration of the AFI,” stated the official appointment document.
Neiffert served as representative of the Executive Branch on the Board of Directors of the Matanza Riachuelo Basin Authority (Accumulate), as reported by LA NACION at the end of May when his name was beginning to be mentioned for the position.
56 years old, Neiffert was treasurer of Malvinas Argentinas School Councila party that was led by the former Justicialist mayor Jesus Cariglinowith whom he shared the firm’s partnership New Consuld SAa construction company created in 2008. Before, in 2006, Neiffert was associated with another construction company called New Francs. He was also the private secretary of the former communal chief.
Neiffert will be the lawyer’s successor Silvestre Sivori, who resigned from his position as auditor of the AFI as soon as the departure of the chief of staff was confirmed, Nicolas Posse. Sívori became chief of the spies at the hands of the former Chief of Staff.
In his resume presented to Acumar, Neiffert maintained that he does not have a university degree, but he does have a “extensive experience in resource management, both in private and public settings”. In addition to being the treasurer of the School Council in Malvinas Argentinas, he became the president of the School Council of the Ministry of Education of the Province of Buenos Aires during the first term of Daniel Scioli as head of the Buenos Aires government. Now, both will once again share the same government, since Scioli serves as Secretary of the Environment, Tourism and Sports.
After his long time in politics and the public sector, in 2015 he went into private practice. He worked as a radio and television producer and at Carteles Ya!, a company that advertises on public roads.
Guillermo Francos As soon as he took over as Chief of Staff, he had already announced his intention and also that of the President that the AFI would once again depend directly on the Presidency, since Posse had placed it under his umbrella.
“We must think exactly about a reorganization of intelligence in Argentina. There has to be foreign intelligence to be clear about what is happening in the world,” Francos stressed in his first press conference as head of all the ministers.
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