Overview
- Judge Luis Armella ordered searches at AFA’s Viamonte headquarters, its Ezeiza complex and Javier Faroni’s home, where a 2021 TourProdEnter contract signed by Claudio Tapia and Pablo Toviggino was seized.
- The seized agreement granted TourProdEnter exclusivity over AFA’s foreign collections and payments with a 30% fee plus 10% for logistics, according to judicial documents.
- Investigators report TourProdEnter managed about US$260 million abroad and at least US$42 million flowed to four Miami companies considered phantom entities, with the probe still without final charges.
- Faroni was stopped from flying to Uruguay at Aeroparque and temporarily barred from travel as authorities conducted searches and secured documentation and devices.
- Armella lifted fiscal and banking secrecy and sought information from U.S. banks as part of an international laundering line tied to Sur Finanzas, while the Cámara Federal de La Plata placed ARCA’s related case under Villena.