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Judge Lifts Secrecy and Keeps Court Open in Pilar Estate Probe as AFA Leaders Are Imputed in $19.35 Billion Tax Case

The court tapped the tax agency to map corporate and payment trails and will receive a virtual filing from the estate’s listed owners on Monday.

Overview

  • The Economic Criminal Court led by Judge Marcelo Aguinsky ended the secrecy order and ordered a DGI technical study of the companies tied to the Pilar property.
  • Aguinsky directed evidence-gathering on security videos, highway tolls paid with a single credit card, and Flyzar helicopter logs to link movements and potential beneficiaries.
  • Real Central SRL, owned on paper by monotributista Luciano Pantano and retiree Ana Conte, will submit a descargo after investigators flagged cash payment of building fees, a helipad and 54 luxury cars.
  • Records cited in the case show a May 2024 capital jump from ARS 300,000 to ARS 58 million and a subsequent USD 1.8 million purchase, plus earlier title shifts among related parties.
  • The judge suspended the January judicial recess, while in a separate case prosecutor Claudio Navas Rial imputed Claudio Tapia, Pablo Toviggino and other AFA directors for alleged non-deposited withholdings totaling about ARS 19.35 billion before Judge Diego Amarante.