Buenos Aires, November 20, 2025 - Total News Agency - TNA. The investigation into the offshore companies of Romina Aldana Diago, wife of national deputy Cristián Ritondo (PRO), is in a key phase of judicial and administrative scrutiny. A criminal complaint filed in December 2024 is in Federal Court No. 12, under Judge Sebastián Casanello, and a preliminary investigation opened by the Office of Anticorruption (OA) could lead to Ritondo's disqualification.
A 2014 sale of a Goformore property to Juan Alberto Pazo – current head of ARCA, appointed by Milei – adds complexity, suggesting ties to figures in the new government. Ritondo, with a declared fortune of 1.541 billion pesos in 2023 (the highest among Deputies), omitted these assets in his sworn asset statements from 2013-2024, violating Article 23 of Public Ethics Law 25.188, which requires reporting spouses' assets. In her 2024 statement, Diago reported 33 million pesos (six donated apartments, a Peugeot 208, and a Zanella motorcycle, with no dollars), which is insufficient to justify the purchases without visible loans.
In a context of a 10% GDP tax evasion rate, the case – part of the 338 Argentines in the Pandora Papers – highlights the opacity of elites: Should there be automatic audits for officials' offshore accounts?
«The concealment of these assets could be malicious and suggest money laundering,» the article states, which was initially revealed by the Pandora Papers in 2021 and deepened in December 2024 by theDiarioAR and the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP). The scheme involves a web of entities in tax havens controlling at least five properties in Miami worth 2.6 million dollars, not declared in the legislator's filings, generating suspicions of willful omission and money laundering.
Ritondo is being mentioned for a cabinet post, but perhaps the deputy would prefer to maintain his parliamentary immunity. The case, which involves Diago – a 48-year-old lawyer with a career in the Buenos Aires City Government under Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, as an advisor in the Magistracy Council and the City Audit Office – focuses on companies such as Sunstar Point Ltd. (British Virgin Islands, created in 2014 with her passport and Argentine bank references), Ilustre LLC and Bonita Holdings 39 LLC (Delaware and Florida), and Goformore LLC (managed until 2013).
Casanello summoned Diago for January 15, 2025, ordered accounting audits, and raids on Florida records via international rogatory. Diago stopped appearing publicly in Goformore in July 2013, replaced by María José Pérez Millán, but Florida records list her as a hidden shareholder. Judicial sources indicate the probe is exploring flows from public offices in the city, with testimonies from former collaborators of Diago at the Audit Office.
Diago issued a statement: «The companies were strictly for work purposes; I left Goformore in 2013 and the assets are in a family trust, not in my direct name.» As Casanello proceeds, PRO's 'offshore festival' could erode its alliance with LLA. In its summary on December 12, 2024, the OA requested complete sworn asset statements and access to confidential third-party data, classified by a 2012 Kirchnerist decree but auditable by judges.
The criminal complaint, pushed on December 9, 2024, by lawyer Jeremías Rodríguez (CELS) before Casanello, accuses Diago of «fraudulent administration» and «money laundering» (Articles 260 and 303 of the Criminal Code), and Ritondo of cover-up. The UIF intervened in the offshore accounts, freezing 5 million pesos in suspicious movements between 2014 and 2023. PRO, key in Congress for Milei, is downplaying it internally, but the scandal coincides with the negotiation of the labor reform, where Ritondo leads.
Experts like Daniel Sabsay question the confidentiality of spouses' assets: «It does not exempt from willful omission; it could disqualify Ritondo». These entities acquired luxury real estate between 2013 and 2015, including an apartment in the Beachwalk condominium in Hallandale Beach (650,000 dollars, transferred for 500,000 to Ilustre) and four more units in Miami complexes, appraised at 1.95 million dollars. The OA could elevate the case to a political trial if malice is confirmed, with penalties of up to two years in prison. Ritondo, on TN on December 10, dismissed it as «opposition lawfare with old data»: «We reviewed the sworn statements; everything is declared in a reserved file». A revocable trust, Warwick Trust (2014), managed by Diago as grantor and trustee, transfers control to Ritondo upon her death or incapacity, with their children as final beneficiaries. The Pandora Papers documents – 11.9 million leaked files from ICIJ and OCCRP – reveal opaque transfers hiding beneficiaries, a pattern to evade taxes and regulations.
