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Opposition challenges English training contract linked to top official's wife
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Opposition challenges English training contract linked to top official's wife
Criticism over Foreign Ministry's English-language training contract; Government insists integrity controls were activated and denies any irregularity; Complaint alleges failure to publish conflict-of-interest declaration.
The controversy over the contract of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the Argentine Association of English Culture (AACI), whose executive director is María Josefina Rouillet, wife of the minister Federico Sturzenegger, continues to grow. The contract, with an amount of $114,044,133, was intended for the training in English of the staff and generated criticism for its cost per hour, estimated at almost $200,000, especially when it came to th…
A draft resolution asks the Executive for “urgent and detailed” information on an award of more than $114 million to train diplomatic staff in English. The hiring was carried out under an exceptional procedure and is linked to the entity chaired by the wife of Minister Federico Sturzenegger.
Buenos Aires, February 18, 2026 (NA)- The Anti-Corruption Office (OA) stated in an official opinion that, when verifying the online publication of the file by which the Foreign Ministry processed the hiring of the Argentine Association of English Culture (AACI), the documentation visible on the institutional site reached document #0043 (an internal administrative pass within the file), while the file downloaded from the state system (GDE) alread…
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