Who is Prosecutor Ramiro González?
Ramiro González lidera investigaciones federales en causas penales, ambientales y electorales desde 2004.
Ramiro González is a federal prosecutor with duties in three central areas of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office: the federal criminal jurisdiction, electoral competence, and environmental criminal investigation.
His current duties include heading Federal Prosecutor’s Office No. 7 of the Federal Capital, serving as prosecutor in Federal Prosecutor’s Office No. 1 with electoral competence before the National Electoral Chamber, and directing the Environmental Investigations Prosecutorial Unit (UFIMA), whose jurisdiction extends throughout the national territory.
He joined the Public Prosecutor’s Office as a federal prosecutor in 2004, after passing Contest No. 21 and being appointed by executive decree. His initial work was at the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of Dolores, until 2012 when he assumed his current position in Federal Prosecutor’s Office No. 7. In the framework of the latter, he has intervened in cases linked to economic crimes, money laundering, drug trafficking, acts of corruption, and other offenses classified by the Penal Code, which due to their nature fall outside the competence of ordinary courts and whose processing corresponds to federal jurisdiction.
The responsibility of the prosecutor’s office includes the investigation of possible crimes that fall under the scope of its competence, the control of legality of the investigation, the direction of evidentiary measures, and the articulation with technical bodies, all under the principles of objectivity, legality, and functional autonomy.
In parallel, Ramiro González heads UFIMA, a unit created in 2006 to intervene specifically in cases of alleged environmental crime. This unit investigates acts that may constitute criminal infractions of norms such as Law 24.051 on hazardous waste or Law 22.421 on wildlife protection, among other provisions.
Its task is strictly criminal in nature, differentiating its functions from other administrative bodies, such as the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Nation (the highest-ranking national environmental body, whose functions are to establish and execute environmental policies at the national level, including the promotion of programs and projects aimed at environmental preservation) ; the Federal Environmental Council -COFEMA (an interjurisdictional body that coordinates environmental policy throughout the country and is integrated by the local environmental bodies of the provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, in addition to the Ministry of Environment of the Nation referred to above) ; and other provincial bodies such as local environment ministries or secretariats and specific bodies (such as the Provincial Body for Sustainable Development of the Province of Buenos Aires -OPDS- or the Corrientes Institute of Water and Environment -ICAA-) and even municipal ones (which are in charge, for example, of issues such as collection and management of common urban waste, control of local pollution by noise or effluents, urban trees, management of permits for commercial and industrial activities that could have a local impact, etc.). Thus, the prosecutor’s office intervenes when an affectation to the environment with consequences for public health or natural heritage is presumed, which may be the result of an action typified in the Penal Code or special laws as a crime.
Since 2021, Ramiro González also exercises the interim function of electoral prosecutor in Federal Prosecutor’s Office No. 1. Prosecutor Ramiro González has intervened in the national electoral processes of 2021, 2023 and 2025, participating in the habilitation of complaint channels, ruling on the legal personality of political parties and their internal processes, controlling the legality of the electoral process, and coordinating tasks with the Electoral Command. His participation has included the issuance of technical opinions in appeals of party primaries, as well as the formulation of observations on electoral symbols. His function in the electoral jurisdiction is not political, but consists of the application of current legislation and the promotion of compliance with norms, ruling before the Federal Electoral Court of the Federal Capital and the National Electoral Chamber. Throughout his career, he has been characterized by his technical institutional profile, avoiding public exposure, without issuing opinions on ongoing cases.
