Namely, that on top of kidnapping, torturing, and forcefully disappearing 30,000 people, the military dictatorship that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983 also looted their goods and laundered them through a series of businesses. Some parties involved even used the laundered goods to finance legitimate businesses that persisted even after the end of the dictatorship. “In Switzerland and many international banks, the Argentine dictatorship was seen as an administrative problem,” Andreas Fontana, the director of the film, told the Herald. An integral part of the laundering network, he was arrested in 1995 in Cádiz, where he had been living for years. He went on to say that money stolen from the desaparecidos circulated in two of the firm’s casinos in Tierra del Fuego.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald March 21, 2026 13:14 UTC