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Judge Servini Orders 30 Simultaneous Raids in Sur Finanzas Currency-Arbitrage Probe

Investigators aim to trace 2023 official‑dollar operations they say were flipped on the parallel market for gains approaching $500 million.

Overview

  • The Federal Police’s Investigations Superintendency executed the court-ordered searches across Buenos Aires City, the province and locations including Bahía Blanca on Feb. 24–25.
  • Agents seized cash in pesos and foreign currency, phones, computers and accounting records; some reports also noted the discovery of a dagger with Nazi symbols.
  • Warrants covered sites linked to Centro de Inversiones Concordia SRL and Gestiones San Miguel SA, including the home of director Silvia Torrado, while Sur Finanzas is associated with Ariel Vallejo although records list his mother as the owner.
  • Clarín reports that in Servini’s case Vallejo is not formally named and that Beatriz Vallejo is a primary focus, with the file under seal.
  • The case grew from a UIF complaint based on Central Bank alerts about concentrated 2023 dollar purchases of roughly $1.4–$1.5 billion, with this branch probing about $500 million, and follows an earlier December wave of about 60 searches; across both waves, more than $100,000 and 100 million pesos were seized, according to judicial sources.