The Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA) presented the documents requested by the judiciary in the complaint against the Argentine Football Association (AFA) for embezzlement of taxes and withholding of pension contributions.
Judicial sources informed Clarion that the organization had submitted the documents requested by the judge to the economic crimes court Diego Amarante. He also confirmed the complaint.
The public prosecutor’s office was therefore in a position to decide whether a criminal investigation should be officially initiated.
The government of Javier Mileivia ARCA, condemned the AFA for embezzling taxes and withholding pension contributions for more than 7 billion pesos from December last year to last September.
ARCA, in its complaint, estimated the amount of damages at 7,593,903,512.23 pesos. In the presentation, the organization took direct aim at AFA President Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia. He claimed he was “the person who held a high-ranking leadership position at the time the acts were committed.”
But then ARCA expanded the criminal complaint. The agency added new periods of suspected evasion of more than 11 billion pesos. There he alleged alleged tax evasion from March and May 2024 and from July this year to July last year, as well as pension evasion from March to September 2024. for a total of 11,759,643,331.62 pesos.
Both lectures were given by the head of the criminal division of the “Big Taxpayers Control” section of ARCA, Vanina Vidal.
“The law provides for a period of thirty (30) calendar days after the expiration of the period for depositing the withheld social security tax/source of withholding. Thereafter, the crime of misappropriation of taxes and social security revenues is completed by the total or partial failure to deposit the withheld social security tax/source of withholding after the expiration of the period established by law for the deposit of this deposit,” ARCA explained in its presentation.
After the original complaint, Judge Amarante ordered ARCA to ratify it and provide all documentation supporting it. Once this process has been completed, a decision must now be made to officially open the investigation.
The government continues to add complaints against the AFA. Weeks ago he condemned Sur Finanzas, Ariel Vallejo, a businessman linked to Tapia and many Argentine football fans. DGI-ARCA explained that the financial company evaded 3,300 million pesos of check tax and managed more than 800 billion pesos from people who were not economically capable and did not exist directly.
The Federal Justice of Lomas de Zamora carried out raids on Sur Finanzas, the AFA, the Super League and 18 football clubs, confiscating documents, computers and mobile phones. In this file, three people from the financial company are held for hiding documents.
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