Buenos Aires, December 8, 2025 – Total News Agency-TNA-The arrival of Cristian Ezequiel Auguadra at the helm of the SIDE, officially presented as part of a modernization of the intelligence system, opened an unexpected front within the Government itself: the emergence of documentation linking him to a multi-million dollar network of offshore societies, real estate operations in Miami, Argentine football entrepreneurs, and opaque financial structures that operated for years without apparent state control or supervision.
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The ANDIS effect.
The corporate map surrounding the new head of intelligence is extensive, and in several sections, unsettling. Among them, Mariano Pastor, an entrepreneur based in Miami with strong ties to players, representatives, and sponsors; Héctor Hermida and Raúl Tauz, historically linked to the leadership of Argentine clubs and mentioned in investigations for irregular administration; and Miguel Ángel Pires, one of the most influential managers in Argentine football over the last two decades, cited in various cases for alleged irregular operations related to player transfers and commercial contracts.
The simultaneous presence of these names in offshore structures connected to Auguadra—today head of the body with access to the nation's reserved funds—raises profound questions about the real nature of these societies: are they legitimate private investments or a financial triangulation network that operated for years from abroad and without Argentine fiscal control?
The situation worsens in the face of a central fact: the sworn asset declaration of Auguadra is not public (as head of the SIDE) and there is no evidence that the properties and corporate shares in Miami have been declared in accordance with current Argentine regulations. For an official in charge of managing reserved funds, classified information, and the internal supervision of the intelligence system, asset opacity constitutes a serious institutional risk.
The investigation also points to Bastille Investments Inc.—the Belizean firm—as the structural nexus between several of the societies linked to Auguadra. Other real estate operations—for amounts ranging from USD 240,000 to 860,000—are registered in the name of the various Goose Investment LLC, which shared an operational address at 2275 Biscayne Boulevard, a recurring address in corporate structures used by Argentines with economic activity abroad.
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The corporate composition includes heavyweights from the world of football and its parallel circuits. Belize is one of the destinations historically used to hide final beneficiaries, which makes it difficult to determine who financed the operations and with what objectives.
The case also reaches his family circle: his son Gonzalo Auguadra allegedly participated in a trip to Baku—a TNA exclusive—with reserved funds, simulating a meeting with other agencies, but Auguadra Jr. has no operational position or experience in intelligence, a situation that now resurfaces in the context of the alleged lack of internal controls.
But the case has already escalated enough to become a new test for an administration that promised "zero opacity" and, with this episode, faces one of its most delicate challenges since coming to power.
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The question circulating today among transparency specialists, political sectors, and actors within the intelligence system itself is blunt: can the head of the SIDE—responsible for guarding the state's secrets—justify a multi-million dollar offshore fortune, shared with football entrepreneurs, without clarifying its origin or traceability?
The Government, for now, remains silent.
Between 2017 and 2021, Auguadra appears as a manager, authorized member, or operational signatory in at least seven societies based in Florida and Belize: Sparrow Investors LLC; Bizarak LLC; Goose Investment 3419 LLC; Goose Investment 2709 LLC; Goose Investment 2023 LLC; Goose Investment 907 LLC; Goose Investment 10G LLC, several of them managed through Bastille Investments Inc., an offshore firm constituted in Belize under strict opacity regimes.
According to U.S. commercial documentation, these societies were used to acquire and sell high-value properties in Miami, including an apartment at Continuum South Beach, valued at approximately USD 3.5 million, whose purchase was made by Sparrow Investors LLC a few days after its constitution and whose subsequent sale was signed by Auguadra himself in his capacity as "authorized member."
