Three detainees in the money laundering case involving the financial firm Sur Finanzas, linked to the environment of AFA President Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia, have requested to extend their interrogations. On Wednesday, they are testifying before Federal Judge Luis Armella and Prosecutor Cecilia Incardona.
The accused are Micaela Sánchez, the treasurer of the financial firm; Ariel Vallejo, the driver; and a third woman who was with them during the first operation, learned Noticias Argentinas agency from judicial sources.
The extension of the interrogations occurs while the Justice analyzes the documentation and cell phones seized during the raids. Sánchez was arrested last Thursday during a procedure carried out in a warehouse in the Buenos Aires town of Turdera, while she was removing boxes with documents and cell phones.
Judicial sources indicated that new measures in the coming hours are not ruled out, while the procedural situation of the accused is defined.
In that operation, Federal Police officers found five hidden phones under a seat of a Toyota SW4 pickup truck. In parallel, Judge Armella ordered the opening of safety deposit boxes of Sur Finanzas in different banking entities, as part of the measures aimed at deepening the patrimonial investigation.
During the day it also emerged that Prosecutor Incardona offered Sánchez the possibility of joining the regime of the repentant, a proposal that is being evaluated within the framework of the case.
The other two arrests were made hours after the first raid, after it was confirmed that both were accompanying the treasurer during the transfer of the seized material.
The investigation is framed in a series of raids carried out over three consecutive days in Sur Finanzas offices, clubs, and dependencies linked to the AFA.
