The Argentine federal justice system continues to advance in one of the most resonant investigations of recent years, centered on alleged economic irregularities linked to the management of international income of the Argentine Football Association (AFA). The Prosecutor's Office and the Prosecutor's Office for Economic Crime and Money Laundering (Procelac) maintain that a significant portion of the funds raised abroad would have been channeled out of the Argentine accounting circuit, through a network of companies and allegedly irregular mechanisms. According to seized documentation and preliminary expert reports, between 2021 and 2025, TourProdEnter would have handled international income of close to 300 million dollars, of which only a small proportion — estimated at around 5% — would have been effectively transferred to the AFA's accounts in accordance with the original contract that established a 30% commission for the intermediary. In parallel, million-dollar payments and operations to other societies registered in the United States were identified, many of them without visible economic activity, which raises suspicions that they functioned as instruments to divert funds out of the legal banking circuit. In recent days, in addition to the presentation of Faroni and Gillette before the Justice, the case has deepened with additional measures of international cooperation. The objective is to determine if there was a structure destined to channel resources through offshore companies and if there were crimes such as money laundering, fraudulent administration or fraud to the detriment of the sports entity and its associates. The AFA case has already had previous milestones: at the end of December, justice ordered the prohibition of leaving the country for Faroni after an attempt to board a private flight to Uruguay, measures to lift banking and fiscal secrecy, and the discovery of contracts and key documentation that link the AFA to companies constituted in the United States under criteria that judicial authorities qualify as “irregular or lack verifiable economic backing”. The AFA case has generated a wave of repercussions in sports, judicial and political spheres, and raises questions about the transparency in the management of the resources of one of the most important organizations in Argentine sports. This Friday morning, the businessman and former Buenos Aires deputy Javier Faroni and his wife Érica Gillette presented themselves spontaneously before federal judge Luis Armella in Federal Court No. 2 of Lomas de Zamora, before the formal summons scheduled, to put themselves at the disposal of the justice system in the case that investigates a supposed illegal money circuit based on contracts celebrated between the AFA and intermediary companies abroad. The investigation — of high technical and economic complexity — revolves around the contract by which the US company TourProdEnter LLC, managed by Faroni and Gillette, acted as the exclusive commercial agent of the AFA for the management of broadcasting rights, sponsorship and other external income since 2021. The Prosecutor's Office requested to expand the research to include other natural and legal persons who would have acted as financial intermediaries, some with links to AFA directors and people from the political and business environment. As the investigation progresses, the judicial authorities seek to clarify the final destination of the questioned resources and to specify individual responsibilities in a possible scheme of international financial maneuvers outside the current regulations. The head of the Financial Information Unit (UIF) traveled to the United States to exchange data and request documentation from bodies such as FinCEN, in an effort to consolidate the investigation into societies registered in different North American states and suspicious financial movements. Judge Armella, at the head of the case, also ordered raids on homes linked to Faroni and the AFA, in addition to lifting the fiscal, banking, financial and stock market secrecy of those involved to reconstruct the flow of money. So far, Faroni and Gillette have not made a formal statement or been formally charged with specific crimes, although the case continues its course and could lead to new summons for questioning or precautionary measures as more evidence accumulates. The investigation has also reached other facets of the suspected economic network.
