Buenos Aires, Dec 15 (NA) — The treasurer of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Pablo Toviggino, appointed the well-known Tostado coffee chain, chaired by the son of Avanza Libertad Senator Patricia Bullrich, who denounced him before the Ethics Tribunal of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL). According to what Noticias Argentinas was able to verify, the official responded to the former Minister of Security on his X account and attacked the son, Francisco Langieri: "Let's clarify something basic: the AFA is a Private Association, not a state body. Why don't you focus on the corruption in your own government, with a coffee with a TOSTADO," the AFA treasurer countered. The official used the accusation of dubious capital origin and bounced checks that fall on the coffee and gastronomy chain Tostado, now chaired by Bullrich's son. Langieri was appointed in March 2024 as head of this conglomerate that declares more than 63 million dollars annually while accumulating checks rejected for minimal amounts. On Monday morning, Bullrich had published on her X the complaint she made to Toviggino and AFA president Claudio Tapia before the CONMEBOL Ethics Tribunal, to which she demanded that it "thoroughly investigate this mafia that runs the AFA and dirties Argentine football." "To the mansions, Ferraris and all that dirty money we've been seeing on the news, I ask: Where is the money that comes from advertising and from the National Team? Why are the prizes for champions lower than Tapia's flights around the world? Sur Finanzas managing club debts in exchange for favors and votes? What about contracting with your own companies? And the retention of contributions? The list of irregularities and murky money management is endless. If you do them, you have to pay for them."
