The focus is on full traceability: contract, fund entry, commission application, payments to third parties, and final destination of the money. The underlying question remains open: if the commercial management is carried out by AFA's internal structure, what specific service justifies a third party retaining 30% of international income. The agreed-upon percentage was set at 30% on international income plus 10% for logistical tasks related to the contracts in which it participated. The judicial debate is no longer centered solely on the amount, but on the consideration for services. Buenos Aires, February 26 (NA) – The judicial investigation into the contract between AFA and TourProdEnter LLC has added a new axis: what concrete management did Javier Faroni perform to justify the 30% commission on international commercial income and the additional 10% for logistics. The Justice is trying to establish whether the company participated in the negotiation of those agreements or if it mainly operated as a billing and collection channel. The example of the contract with Adidas in 2024 is central. If AFA's commercial area is the one that negotiates, closes, and executes agreements —as Petersen stated in journalistic interviews— the question that orders the file is what was the specific contribution of the intermediary firm. In the bank records incorporated into the case, there are transfers related to contracts with Adidas and other international sponsors. Without operational details, the additional percentage adds to the questioning about the economic reasonableness of the scheme. From the leadership of AFA, they maintain that the model responds to habitual practices in international sports commercialization and that the structure allowed to centralize the collection abroad. The Justice is trying to verify if those services existed and if they have a direct relationship with the international commercial operation. The concept of 'logistics', provided for in the contract with an additional 10%, has become another critical point. Investigators are trying to determine if there was additional commercial management or if the link between the brand and AFA was maintained in previous relationships and in the internal structure of the marketing area. In the file, the absence of public evidence of the generation of new international sponsors, organization of friendly matches, or opening of unprecedented markets attributable to the intermediary is also analyzed. However, the statements of the commercial manager himself about his internal role in the capture of sponsors introduce a contradiction that is now part of the judicial analysis. The case is processed in the Federal Justice, which evaluates possible economic crimes linked to fraudulent administration and money laundering. Part of those funds was channeled through accounts linked to the contracted firm. Sources of the case indicated that there are no management reports, customer capture reports, or documentation detailing negotiations initiated by the company. The hypothesis that Justice is evaluating is if the scheme could have functioned as a channel for diverting funds. Without documentation that accredits a specific consideration, the analysis is oriented to determine if it was a formal structure that enabled the retention of resources generated by AFA itself. A parallel chapter was opened after the raid on the entity's headquarters in December 2025 and January 2026. Investigators are analyzing what concrete tasks that item covers, how they were certified, and who validated their execution. The answer will depend on the supporting documentation that has not yet been made public and on the accounting reconstruction that the experts will carry out. The vouchers refer to 'logistics services' and contain mentions to the VAR system. In several cases, the transfers entered accounts at Bank of America and Citibank associated with the investigated structure before being redistributed. The 30% commission applied to incomes that exceed 300 million dollars in the period under investigation would imply millionaire figures. The question arises from public statements by the entity's Marketing and Commercial manager, Leandro Petersen, who stated that the internal area is responsible for sales, activations, and actions with sponsors. According to what Agencia Noticias Argentinas learned, the agreement signed on December 9, 2021, by Claudio 'Chiqui' Tapia and Pablo Toviggino granted exclusivity to TourProdEnter LLC to commercially represent AFA abroad until 2026. There, payment orders for at least 300 million pesos to the firm Real Central were found, identified in corporate documentation as the owner of a mansion in Pilar. The technical sponsor of the Argentine National Team transferred approximately 25 million dollars in the framework of the current agreement.
