Justice Ministry creates national cybercrime and digital evidence program
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What happened
The Ministry of Justice published Resolution 483/2026 in the Official Gazette creating PRONACIB, a national program focused on criminal policy for cybercrime and digital evidence. The resolution establishes an institutional coordination mechanism across judicial authorities, law-enforcement bodies, private-sector actors and international counterparts, including cooperation formats associated with the Budapest Convention.
Why it matters
The resolution creates a new federal coordination layer for cybercrime policy and digital evidence handling. That can change investigation workflows, international legal assistance channels and expectations on companies that receive preservation, disclosure or incident-cooperation requests.
Argentina's Ministry of Justice created the National Program for Criminal Policy on Cybercrime and Digital Evidence (PRONACIB) through Resolution 483/2026, published in the Official Gazette on September 25. The measure reorganizes the federal policy framework for cybercrime, sets a formal coordination role with prosecutors, courts, security forces, companies and foreign counterparts, and ties Argentina's operating approach more explicitly to Budapest Convention cooperation channels. The announcement matters because it changes who convenes and standardizes cybercrime policy at the federal level, with near-term implications for case handling, cross-border requests and public-private information exchange.
Watch for
Ministry of Justice publication of PRONACIB's operational guidelines or designated authorities in the Boletín Oficial by 2026-09-28 Public Ministry (Ministerio Público Fiscal) acknowledgement of an inter-institutional coordination protocol with PRONACIB by 2026-09-28 Argentina's 24/7 Budapest Convention contact point or Justice Ministry notice of updated cross-border digital evidence procedures by 2026-09-28 Any circular from the Ministry of Security or federal forces assigning cybercrime liaison units to PRONACIB by 2026-09-28
Sources
- Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina · boletinoficial.gob.ar
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