A judicial investigation into alleged irregular flights to a mansion located in Villa Rosa, Pilar district, has gained a new significant element in recent hours: the appearance of the surname Sigman linked to one of the aircraft under analysis. According to an investigation published by the Clarín newspaper, a Bell 407GX helicopter, registration LV-FNE, was detected that would have made at least 34 flights between May 2025 and January 2026 to the property attributed to the treasurer of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Pablo Toviggino. The aircraft belongs to and is operated by Luis Alberto Gold, the brother-in-law of businessman Hugo Sigman, one of the most influential figures in the Argentine pharmaceutical sector and who was under judicial scrutiny for the Covid vaccine. According to official records of the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC), some of these flights would have been made before the heliport had formal authorization, as the administrative process began on May 13, 2025, while the first recorded flight dates from the 3rd of that month. AFA Case: Toviggino's Suspicious Flights. The journalistic report also points out striking similarities between this helicopter and another aircraft already investigated in the case, a Bell 429 operated by the company Flyzar, both with matching flight patterns, interruptions in tracking systems, and routes to and from the same property. In both cases, the flights began immediately after the rapid construction of the heliport, detected by satellite imagery. The case also exposes serious failures in state controls. In the file linked to the helicopter operated by Flyzar, the Justice found flight plans with empty manifests, with no passengers declared, documentation that passed through different agencies —ANAC, PSA and EANA— without observations or alerts. Another relevant fact is that the president of the AFA, Claudio 'Chiqui' Tapia, would have used this same helicopter in 2017 during the visit to the country of the head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, within the framework of management related to the bid for the 2030 World Cup. With this new finding, the judicial investigation adds a second helicopter, nearly a hundred suspicious flights, and new questions about who the transported passengers were, who financed the transfers, and whether irregular maneuvers already detected in other parts of the case were repeated. The investigation is now under the orbit of the federal judge who recently took over the file.
