Overview
- ARCA, which filed an expanded complaint Friday, says the Argentine Football Association used sham suppliers and fake invoices to avoid $289,336,519.66 in taxes.
- The filing names AFA president Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia and treasurer Pablo Toviggino and asks the court to examine a possible criminal tax organization inside the leadership.
- Auditors report that 77.11% of the questioned payments moved by check through successive endorsements, which obscured who ultimately received the money.
- Investigators are folding in bank data from Santander, BBVA, Galicia, Comafi, Credicoop, Supervielle and Patagonia to trace end payees and match payments to real work.
- This new allegation enters case CPE 1182/2025 alongside an earlier probe over allegedly withheld taxes nearing 19 billion pesos, raising legal and reputational risks for AFA’s top brass.