The white collar criminal lawyer Claudio Roberto Navas Rial has formally charged AFA President and Treasurer Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia and Pablo Toviggino, among other leaders in the case investigating the illegal withholding of pension contributions from employees of the company and major Argentine clubs, as the case opened before Judge Diego Amarante. For this reason, the DGI is demanding contributions of more than 19 billion pesos from the highest authorities of the AFA in the last two years.
It is the first of the three cases opened this week, such as that of Sur Finanzas and the Pilar mansion, in which Tapia and his right-hand man will be formally charged in court and possibly prosecuted for these crimes of withholding pension contributions, profits and VAT.
In his request for investigation, prosecutor Navas Rial accused Tapia of “in his capacity as president and administrator of the financial key” and due to the expansion of the corporate and economic structure of the AFA and the amounts involved, “making it necessary to also expand the investigation.” Cristian Ariel Malaspina and Gustavo Lorenzo” they shared Clarion Court sources. Malaspina is another leader in Toviggino-themed businesses.
The case was initiated by the complaint of the Head (Int.) of the Criminal Division of the Legal Department of the Directorate for the Control of Large Taxpayers of the ARCA, Vanina Mariel Vidal, which detailed that those responsible for the taxpayer AFA “withheld taxes and social security contributions.” they would not have deposited it after the statutory expiry period of thirty calendar days for amounts that far exceed the objective criminal liability requirement provided for in Articles 4 and 7 of the Tax Code.”
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