While the situation of the President of the AFA, Claudio Chiqui Tapiaand its treasurer Pablo Toviggino it’s getting more and more difficult justice gave him this Thursday a counterattack letter for the Indictment in a money laundering case to business people Foster Gillett And Guillermo Tofoniclosely linked to the head of Estudiantes de La Plata Juan Sebastian Veron.
The judicial measure is related to an investigation by the Economic Criminal Prosecutor’s Office No. 3, responsible for Emilio Guerberoff. Last March, the federal prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan filed the first complaint against the businessmen for alleged money laundering based on movements in the Argentine football summer pass market, which included the purchase of Christian Medina to the club Boca Juniorswhich was delayed by a failed transfer of $15 million.
Rodrigo Villagra, Valentín Gómez and Ezequiel Piovi, who belonged to the same group of companies, were also dealing with different problems. In fact, the footballers and their representatives were invited to testify.
When Foster Gillet bought the club Rampla Juniors – which later ran into institutional and sporting problems when it was relegated to Uruguay’s third division for the first time last October – Justice suspected a love triangle between Argentina, the neighboring country and Europe, which did not allow knowing “the origin of the funds” that they would pay out to Estudiantes de La Plata (there was talk of about $150 million in various installments that were never crystallized).
For this reason, Guerberoff – who is leading the investigation alongside Judge Marcelo Aguinsky, who a few days ago received the case regarding the alleged frontmen of the president of the AFA – ordered a series of measures, including: the lifting of Foster and Tofoni’s tax secrecy and the banking secrecy of the two clubs involved (Boca and Estudiantes).
Tofoni was appointed Gillet’s representative in Argentina at the beginning of 2025, when promises of an investment to make the project of landing the Sports Joint Stock Companies (SAD) in Argentine football a reality had not yet collapsed.
About The Author
