Oops! Two employees of Senasa in Salta were convicted for falsifying data on animal stock and transit.

It is news in the province of Salta that two former officials of Senasa were convicted of committing irregularities in the control of animal transit, possibly to favor cattle rustling or the sale of livestock in the black market. The former employees of the agency were working in the office of Joaquín V. González, in the heart of the Salta mountains. This town is located on Route 16, which leaves Salta and leads to the Chaco, also crossing northern Santiago del Estero. These are provinces that suffer a high level of cattle theft. Therefore, the importance of functioning controls there is superlative. The case, reported among other media by the Salta newspaper El Tribuno, began in September 2024, after the justice system received "complaints of anomalies regarding the registration of animals in transit" for that region. Senasa is the agency responsible for issuing the DTA (Document for the Transit of Animals) and its electronic variant DTE. Without this document in order, it is ...