Domingo Liotta Author of the Law 20748, The National System of Public Health. 1991-94: Surgeon-in-Chief, Cardiovascular Clinic Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1994-96: Secretary of State for Science and Technology and President of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Argentina. 1997–present: Dean of the School of Medicine, University of Morón, Argentina Member of numerous Medical Societies around the world. Owner of 12 patent inventions in USA, Argentina and France. Author of hundreds of scientific publications and scientific books. Author of medical humanism books in English and Spanish. Recently published his autobiography,"Amazing Adventures of a Heart Surgeon. The Artificial Heart: The
Corruption in Argentina international banks as Credit Suisse, First Boston Corporation, HSBC Bank Argentina, JP Morgan Securities, and Salomon Smith Barney. The charges pertained to the 2001 Megaswap negotiated between Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo and said banks. Cavallo attempted to avoid a bond default by offering bondholders a swap, whereby longer-term, higher-interest bonds would be exchanged for bonds coming due in 2010. The Megaswap was accepted by most bondholders (particularly banks, which used the Megaswap to shed rapidly depreciating bonds), and delayed up to US$30 billion in payments that would have been due by 2005; but it also added US$38 billion in interest