Overview
- - Federal judge Luis Armella directed simultaneous searches at AFA’s Viamonte headquarters, the Ezeiza training center, the Liga Profesional offices and 17 clubs, including Racing, Independiente, San Lorenzo, Banfield, Barracas Central, Argentinos Juniors, Platense, Morón, Los Andes, Excursionistas and Deportivo Armenio.
- - Police seized contracts, computers and accounting records to compare club and AFA books with material taken from Sur Finanzas and to examine whether loans were repaid via television or marketing rights.
- - The operation follows a DGI/AFIP complaint reporting roughly 818,000 million pesos in transfers and alleged evasion of more than 3,327 million pesos, with flows routed through low‑capacity monotributistas, presumed apocryphal firms and non‑categorized subjects.
- - Prosecutor Cecilia Incardona requested the lifting of fiscal and banking secrecy for the 17 clubs and several individuals, while Sur Finanzas operator Ariel Vallejo recently turned over a cellphone to investigators.
- - In a related case, Judge Daniel Rafecas ordered police custody and appraisal of a Villa Rosa estate flagged by a Coalición Cívica complaint that names alleged front persons linked to AFA figures, as courts continue to dispute jurisdiction.