Buenos Aires, Dec. 31 (NA) — The Federal Court No. 2 of Lomas de Zamora has summoned Javier Faroni and Erica Gillette to appear on January 19 in a criminal case for alleged fraud and money laundering. The measure was ordered within the framework of case file FLP 29.107/2025, titled 'Tucker Oscar, Spinoza Federico José, Maraver Figueroa Diego, Club Atlético Banfield and others/ Fraud and violation of Art. 205-bis of the Criminal Procedure Code', with the intervention of Secretariat No. 11, led by Dr. Vanesa Alejandra Curcio. Both must appear before the court at 10:00 and 10:15, respectively, to be formally notified of the rights they are entitled to in the process. According to the resolution, the summons does not imply an accusation or defined criminal responsibility. The case investigates an alleged illicit financial maneuver between Club Atlético Banfield and the firm Sur Finanzas, through fictitious dollar loans, simulated sponsorship contracts, and assignments of collection rights, with the aim of bringing allegedly illicit money into the legal circuit. As reported by the Argentine News Agency, the financial structure under analysis would have used trusts and companies linked to the club's leadership, such as the Trust for Banfileña Reconstruction and Banfileños S.A., to give a licit appearance to funds that then entered the system through a payment service provider. Million-dollar movements by individuals with no accredited economic capacity were also identified, including low-profile monotributistas and alleged fictitious persons, in a pattern usually associated with asset laundering operations. The investigation has reached a new stage with the detection of international connections, where the figure of Faroni, linked to companies in the United States that would have received part of the funds diverted from structures linked to Argentine football, has taken on relevance. The prosecution maintains that these accounts, operated in the United States, would have been used to channel money to offshore companies, mainly in Florida, with insolvent titulars, in an attempt to fragment the traceability of the funds and hinder international cooperation.
