Argentina's tax authority has identified multiple inconsistencies in the operations of Malte SRL, a company linked to the inner circle of AFA treasurer Pablo Toviggino. According to the analyzed fiscal information, the firm had only one employee for almost the entire period examined, except for a brief three-month period when it registered more staff. Inconsistencies also appear on a geographical level. According to documentation from the Argentine Football Association itself, Malte SRL was hired directly in 2022 for the implementation of the VAR system for a sum close to 550,000 dollars. In the report submitted to the Justice, the fiscal body also warns of difficulties in reconstructing the traceability of various asset transactions carried out by the company. While the company's tax domiciles are located in the province of Santiago del Estero, the only registered employee would have a domicile in Puerto Madero, in the City of Buenos Aires. Among the irregularities observed are repeated changes of tax domicile, difficulties in physically locating the company at the declared addresses, and simultaneous registration in various economic activities that have no relation to each other. One of the data points that most caught the researchers' attention is that the company externalized assets worth 1.4 million dollars under the asset regularization regime established by Law 27.743, known as the capital whitewashing law. This financial movement was recorded in the tax systems and is now the subject of analysis within the judicial file. The firm had already come under observation in previous journalistic investigations due to its appearance as the formal owner of the aforementioned mansion in Pilar, as well as for its business link with the AFA. The document states that the firm could function as a presumed 'invoice factory' and warns that it would not have the real operational capacity to justify the volume of economic operations registered in recent years. The investigation is part of the judicial case docketed 'Pantano, Luciano Nicolás y otro s/ infringement art. 303,' which is being handled in the Federal Court of Campana and analyzes possible money laundering maneuvers. The company declared registrable assets such as vehicles, real estate, and agricultural machinery, but researchers detected repeated increases and decreases of these assets, often carried out between companies related to the same corporate network. The analysis of motor vehicles registered, for example, a significant number of transfers, particularly of high-end vehicles. Meanwhile, as the investigation continues to advance in the Federal Justice system, the fiscal report adds new elements of analysis to a file that had already generated a strong political and sporting impact.
