In the Banco Macro robbery, located just two blocks from the Congress, about 218 safe deposit boxes were opened, police said. In addition, criminals wrote on a wall that they were the architects of “the millennium theft”.

The President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, lashed out again against vulture funds, after Judge Thomas Griesa seized $ 1.8 million from the Central Bank that were in New York. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Amado Boudou, the economy minister, presented the official reason for which Cristina Kirchner asked Redrado to leave the leadership of the Central Bank. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

According to Alfonso Prat Gay, member of the Civic Coalition and former president of the Central Bank (BCRA), the decree of ‘necessity and urgency’ (DNU) which was signed by Cristina Kirchner to pay the debt with Central Bank’s reserves, “violates” its rules.

Roberto Loiacono, former manager of the Drugs Bank of the Ministry of Health of the Nation, who was escaping from the case called “drugs mafia” with his son, was taken this morning to justice.

Justice is investigating ‘alleged overpricing in the purchase of 20 Brazilian Embraer aircraft to be added to the fleet of Aerolineas Argentinas’.

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In the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, security personnel of the Banco Municipal de Rosario, forgot to lock the front door and access to the teller windows.Users warned the police and fortunately nothing was missing.

The 800 thousand dollars, which were part of the scandal known as ‘valijagate’ and they were carried by Guido Antonini, in a private plane from Venezuela, are still in the National Bank, waiting for someone to withdraw them.

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, launched the micro-credits through the Banco Popular de la Buena Fe in the province of Cordoba, which is boosted by the Ministry of Social Development. Governor Juan Schiaretti defended the Argentines’ right to move freely and he stressed that the exercise of human rights has nothing to do with blocking roads.”

President Cristina Kirchner met with Luis Alberto Moreno, head of the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) in New York, with the aim of seeking new credit.

Ten years ago, an assault with hostage-taking in a branch of the National Bank located in the Buenos Aires town of Villa Ramallo took place. The incident unfolded minutes after 8 am and tension lasted throught the day. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide sent today an official letter to the national authorities to consider “whether they understand appropriate the intervention of the Welfare Bank (Asociación Bancaria) ‘which is being investigated in the case involving forgery and trafficking of counterfeit medicines.

Santander’s subsidiary in Buenos Aires reported that “The Spanish group Santander bought the retail banks and branches previously owned by France’s BNP Paribas in Argentina”

Four men robbed this evening, in a few seconds and without shooting, Itaú bank branch in Bernal, Quilmes, and took the money of two cashiers.

The militarized police in Sao Paulo warned the Bank of Santa Ifigenia Viaducto when an employee found grenade-shaped object inside a bag.

A line 106 bus incrusted today in a branch of the Santander Rio bank in Floresta when the driver suffered a preinfarction and eresulted injured as well as a passenger, police sources reported.

President Hugo Chavez’s government assumed control of Venezuela’s third-largest bank on Friday — making the state the largest player in the nation’s banking system.

A thief was detained this evening when police caught him after he tried to rob a man going out of a bank in the middle of the city of Buenos Aires.

A group of at least 25 armed men assaulted and destroyed a bank division in the city of Sao Paulo, where they took two ATMs with 100 thousand reales (Brazilian currency) (approximately 51.072 dollars) each one. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

This agreement culminates with the conflict of the sector, which included three strikes in May and mobilizations in the whole country. Unionists in the sector demanded a 25% wage increase.