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updated 2026-08-28
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Anti-Mafia: cracking down on organized crime

Law 27.786
in forceNATIONAL State, institutions and security

What changed and who it applies to

What changed
It criminalizes the offense of 'criminal organization' (a group of three or more people acting in concert to commit especially serious crimes in a given geographic area), distinct from criminal conspiracy. It adds to the Criminal Code art. 210 ter (imprisonment of 8 to 20 years for participating in these associations) and art. 210 quater (the penalty of the most serious crime committed when the organization uses violence, acts repeatedly, seeks to displace other organizations or control territories). It enables the early confiscation of assets of presumably illicit origin without a final conviction, which pass to the State, provinces or CABA, along with asset freezing and extraordinary procedural tools. verif · Mar 10, 2025
In force
03/11/2025 (the law takes effect the day after its publication in the Official Gazette, per its own text; published on 03/10/2025). verif · Mar 11, 2025
Who it affects
Members of criminal organizations linked to drug trafficking, money laundering, human trafficking, extortion and property crimes. Each member can be charged for the worst crime committed by any group member. It enables the national State, the provinces and CABA to receive the confiscated assets. verif · Mar 10, 2025
The norm
Ley 27.786 ('Organizaciones Criminales', known as the Ley Antimafias, the anti-mafia law), passed by the national Congress on Feb 20, 2025 and published and enacted in the Boletín Oficial on Mar 10, 2025 (notice 322273). verif · Mar 10, 2025

Our reading

The program advances on substantive legal security: a law that pursues organized crime and allows confiscating its assets without a final conviction reinforces the predictability an investor needs to operate (R3, stability and legal security). What we watch: its effective application by the courts and the doctrinal constitutionality challenges to the early confiscation, which have not suspended or repealed it. thesis

Where it lands, province by province

Applies the same nationwide

We looked at this rule from each of the five provinces we track and found no effect that lands differently in any of them: it applies the same across the country.

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