Former MP Elisa Carrió gave details of the complaint she filed with other members of the Citizens’ Coalition against the president of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Claudio Tapia, and her associate Sergio Massa.
Carrió, together with deputies Facundo Del Gaiso and Matías Yofe, condemned the AFA’s money laundering maneuvers in connection with the illegal purchase of a country house in the town of Pilar.
“We are analyzing the mafia because we have a lot of documentation,” he said in statements to the press.
The former lawmaker clarified that the complaint is based on different facts. On the one hand, the AFA’s financial management, both in the country and in the United States (where it is setting up a football academy), is being investigated, as well as its links to the province of Santiago del Estero and the drug trade.
On this last issue, Carrió noted that there is “an operation” to try to bring the complaint to courts in Campana or Santiago del Estero. If this happens, “you will lose,” since in the city of Buenos Aires “everything is managed by Sergio Massa,” to whom he attributes an “intimate relationship” with Pablo Toviggino, treasurer of the AFA, and in the province of Santiago the same would happen because of the appearance of the governor Gerardo Zamora, whom he accuses of having “relatives within the judicial system.”
In addition, the deputy of Buenos Aires, Matías Yofe, added that the complaint “could end with federal intervention”, assured that they must “proceed at a fixed pace and with supporting documentation”, explained that “it is completely infected with people linked to Toviggino” and explained that “the Citizens’ Coalition is bringing to light something that no one wanted to talk about.”
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