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Judge Orders Raids at Faroni Home and AFA Offices in Expanding Probe of AFA’s U.S. Revenues

Triggered by U.S. discovery of bank records, Argentine investigators are lifting secrecy to trace AFA-linked dollars through international cooperation.

Sergio Massa y Javier Faroni
Faroni junto a su esposa
Javier Faroni y su esposa Erica Gillete.
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Overview

  • Federal judge Luis Armella directed coordinated searches at Javier Faroni’s Nordelta residence, AFA headquarters on Viamonte, and the Ezeiza complex to secure contracts and electronic devices.
  • Faroni was stopped at Aeroparque as he tried to fly to Uruguay, was placed under a travel ban, and investigators recovered a phone he allegedly attempted to discard.
  • Armella ordered the lifting of bank, fiscal, financial, and securities secrecy for Faroni and related parties and requested detailed records from U.S. banks to reconstruct the money trail.
  • U.S. court-ordered discovery shows TourProdEnter LLC handled about US$260 million tied to AFA, with at least US$42 million sent to inactive Florida firms and US$483,604 transferred to SOMA SRL linked to AFA treasurer Pablo Toviggino.
  • AFA issued a formal statement denying irregularities and defending its contract with TourProdEnter, while prosecutors say the case remains in the investigative phase without formal charges announced.