Overview
- Federal Judge Federico Villena referred prosecutor Cecilia Incardona to Procurador Eduardo Casal, alleging she tried to steer the AFIP complaint to another court.
- The Federal Chamber of La Plata will decide whether the AFIP-driven probe stays with Villena or is joined to a related file overseen by Judge Luis Armella.
- Judge Armella ordered urgent steps in the earlier case, including freezing Sur Finanzas’ accounts, lifting fiscal and banking secrecy, and raids at company sites and Banfield-linked locations.
- Investigators seized more than 50 phones—among them devices belonging to Ariel Vallejo, his mother Graciela Vallejo, and former Banfield president Eduardo Spinoza—with Vallejo providing his passcode.
- Searches also yielded sponsorship agreements with clubs and player-transfer contracts, as AFIP alleges roughly 3.3 billion pesos in unpaid cheque tax and operations involving hundreds of billions of pesos.