/ Agencia Noticias Argentinas
The Government of Argentina, through the Ministry of Security, launched the Paraná Plan aimed at the prevention, detection, neutralization and investigation of illicit activities in the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway.
The initiative aims to dismantle smuggling networks and organized crime on the northern river border, located in the provinces of Chaco, Formosa, Corrientes and Misiones. Likewise, the idea seeks to increase controls in public and private ports of the lower section of the Waterway with special attention to the prevention, detection and prosecution of federal crimes.
Other points are to strengthen national and international interagency cooperation, in particular with the European Union, UNODC, DEA and CICAD-OAS; implement comprehensive real-time monitoring systems using drones, radars, scanners and state-of-the-art surveillance technology; and intensify criminal and financial intelligence action aimed at dismantling transnational criminal organizations and combating money laundering.
This plan will be developed in operational phases defined by six territorial intervention polygons, among different Argentine provinces that extend along the waterway.
