The Argentine Football Association (AFA) issued a lengthy statement on Tuesday in which it “strongly” rejected journalistic reports denouncing alleged irregularities in the management of its funds abroad and defended the legality of the contract it has with the American company. TourProdEnter LLC. In the text, the entity that presides Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia He described these publications as a “smear campaign” directed against the institution, its president and its treasurer, Pablo Toviggino.
As the AFA explains, the association with TourProdEnter LLC is an ongoing contract through which the company was appointed as commercial agent for the economic and commercial representation of the association abroad. “This contractual relationship has been duly subjected to the analysis of various courts both in the Argentine Republic and in the United States, without any irregularities being identified,” the company explained.
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The statement says: The AFA recalled a court case pushed forward by businessman Guillermo Tofoni in Argentinaassociated with the sponsorship and organization of friendly matches of the national team, especially those played in the People’s Republic of China. This is CFP file 1294/2023, entitled “Tapia Claudio Fabián s/fraud for violation of rights and violation of Article 303”, in which both the AFA and its President were dismissed on September 6, 2023. This decision was later confirmed by the Federal Criminal and Penitentiary Chamber and the Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber, which ultimately closed the file.
“Nevertheless, and despite the forcefulness of the rulings, the case was closed only in court, not in certain newspaper headlines, which never reported or accounted for the layoffs,” the company said. In this context The AFA targeted Tofoni directlywhom he accused of promoting new judicial measures and public campaigns after these legal setbacks with the aim of creating “a climate of delegitimization and institutional destabilization”.
The statement He also questioned the role of the national government in this process. According to the AFA, the new measures would have had to have the “consent” of the Ministry of Justiceand specifically mentioned the minister Mariano Cuneo Libaronabecause he supported Tofoni’s demands through letters signed as a representative of the nation-state.
As part of this strategy, according to the AFA version, a lawsuit was filed against TourProdEnter LLC in the courts of the state of Florida to investigate its connection with the association. “This lawsuit was recently dismissed in its entirety and archived, once again confirming the legality and legitimacy of the existing relationship between the AFA and TourProdEnter LLC,” the company noted. Therefore, He emphasized that both the Argentine and American judiciaries I have evaluated the contract and have concluded that this is the case “properly adapted to the law”.
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Despite these legal statements, the AFA warned that in recent days publications have been circulating again that speak of alleged irregularities in the management of funds abroad, particularly in the United States. According to the company, these notes are presented as investigations, but they have “a single source”: old legal representations promoted by Tofoni, which have already been rejected by the courts and which, he explained, are being recycled and amplified without sufficient verification.
“It is striking that, in the face of clear and definitive court rulings, certain communicators continue to present in a revealing tone what has already been ruled out by the courts,” the statement said, warning that this narrative points to the institutional wear and tear of a leadership that has been at the helm of the AFA for nine years.
Finally, the company reiterated this The association between the AFA and TourProdEnter LLC is “fully valid.”“, transparent and subject to the appropriate judicial controls,” and addressed the media directly. “Responsibility to report truthfully includes verifying sources and court rulings and avoiding contributing to operations that serve special interests,” he said. And he concluded: “Society deserves to receive serious, responsible and verified information; operations, on the other hand, tend to come to light on their own over time.”
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