Company: PAM
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001292814-25-001504
Chunk: 69

Company: Pampa Energy Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 9
Chunk 69
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 kind of certification as to the quality of the securities or the solvency of the issuer.
Money Laundering
 The concept of money laundering is commonly used to refer to operations that aim to enter funds from criminal activities into the institutional system and thus convert profits from illegal activities into assets of apparently lawful origin.
 On April 13, 2000, the Argentine Congress passed the Anti-Money Laundering Law which classifies money laundering as a crime. Additionally, such law, which amended several sections of the Argentine Criminal Code, has established sanctions for those incurring in such illicit activity and has created the UIF, a unit of the actual Ministry of Justice created to prevent money laundering and financing of terrorist activities.
 The Argentine Criminal Code defines money laundering as the exchange, transfer, management, sale or any other use of money or other assets obtained through a crime, by a person who did not take part in such original crime, with the potential result that such original assets (or new assets resulting from such original assets) appear as if obtained through legitimate means, provided that the aggregate value of the assets involved exceed in the aggregate (through one or more related transactions) Ps.300,000. As previously mentioned, the Anti-Money Laundering Law created the UIF, which is in charge of the analysis, supervision and conveyance of information in order to prevent (A) the laundering of assets obtained from: (i) crimes related to illegal traffic and commercialization of narcotics (Law No. 23,737); (ii) crimes related to arms trafficking (Law No. 22,415); (iii) crimes related to the activities of an illegal association as defined in Article 210 bis of the Argentine Criminal Code; (iv) illegal acts committed by illegal associations (Article 210 of the Argentine Criminal Code) organized to commit crimes with political or racial motivation; (v) crimes of fraud against the Public Administration (Article 174, Section 5 of the Argentine Criminal Code); (vi) crimes against the Public Administration under Chapters VI, VII, IX and IX bis of Title XI of Book Two of the Argentine Criminal Code; (vii) crimes of underage prostitution and child pornography under Articles 125, 125 bis, 127 bis and 128 of the Argentine Criminal Code; (viii) crimes related to financing terrorism (Articles 41quinquies and 306 of the Argentine Criminal Code); (ix) crimes of extortion (Article 168 of the Argentine Criminal Code); (x) tax crimes, related to social