Overview
- Federal judges María Servini, María Eugenia Capuchetti and Sebastián Casanello coordinated more than 100 simultaneous searches across three investigations on December 29.
- Police searched the Banfield home of financier Ariel Vallejo’s mother, seizing computers, phones and documents tied to alleged currency maneuvers.
- Capuchetti lifted fiscal and banking secrecy for Vallejo and 14 linked companies in a Sur Finanzas case that has been active since 2021.
- Casanello ordered raids at Argentina’s Central Bank (BCRA) headquarters and at the homes of inspectors to probe potential complicity or negligence in authorizing access to the official FX market.
- The probes examine suspected irregular purchases around US$1.4 billion during the 2019–2023 controls, with the UIF reporting anomalous flows exceeding US$1 billion; the cases remain under seal with no public imputations reported.