Overview
- The order by Judge Luis Armella grants Prosecutor Cecilia Incardona’s request for DATIP to conduct an exhaustive analysis of forensic copies from the devices.
- Investigators will prioritize 14 phones out of roughly 40 seized, including those of financier Ariel Vallejo and his mother, Graciela Vallejo, who were identified as key to mapping contacts and transactions.
- The examination seeks to reconstruct communications and possible links tied to a suspected scheme of inflated loans, with lines of inquiry also pointing to flows through television rights or marketing revenues.
- Earlier raids gathered documents, contracts, computers and dozens of electronic devices from AFA headquarters, the national league offices, multiple clubs and Sur Finanzas locations.
- Courts imposed preventive asset embargoes and notified the central bank, the financial intelligence unit, the securities regulator and the stock market to locate assets and deter potential stripping, while ARCA’s complaint alleges massive tax evasion and funds moved through economically implausible actors.