In Misiones, 4000, in the city of Buenos Aires Villa Rosa, Pilar districtThe usual calm of a peripheral neighborhood was disturbed by the image of the police. Argentine Federal Police (PFA) stationed in front of the entrance to a complex whose scale is impressive from the outside.
The uniformed officers deployed since last Friday are guarding a Armored property with high walls, electrified fencesCameras, palm trees and a internal helipad this can be seen between the gaps in the circumference.
For the neighbors, the police raid turned what had previously been a whispered comment into a public matter: lThe villa was built with unusual speed aroused suspicion long before he entered the radar of justice.
“All this was built in one year: the mansion was built and at the same time the street, which immediately attracted attentionsays Alejandro, who lives in El Overo I, a small neighborhood that takes up about five blocks, as he mows the lawn on a property he bought a few years ago.
The property, built on a 105,384.80 square meter plot, was named after the Citizens Coalition filed a complaint alleging money laundering through opaque corporate structures and alleged straw men.
The presentation claims that the president of the AFA may have been behind the acquisition of the land and works. Claudio “Chiqui” Tapiaand his treasurer, Claudio Tovigginothe intermediary would have used. The court proposal includes documentation, images and nominal records showing a representation of assets that is difficult to explain to the property’s formal owners: a pensioner and a monotributista.
The evidence included in the file reveals an alleged catalog of showpieces that make up the interior of the place: Collector cars, racehorses, sports fields, a farm and even a helipadjust a few steps from the entrance to Misiones and visible between some gaps in the fence.
According to residents, the work was progressing at a speed that was contrary to the usual rhythm of the neighborhood. In an area where construction often takes years, the construction of walls, facilities and internal roads takes time would have been completed in just a few monthsa speed that raised suspicion.
How he could check THE NATION Walking around the town, the cement fence accompanies Misiones Street and extends along the side of Aráoz de Lamadrid to La Rioja, where there are also two other entrances under the protection of the PFA.
Added to this defensive architecture is a detail that the neighbors – who claim not to know the background to the work – highlight insistently new asphalt. The sidewalk, which suddenly appeared and ended right at the edge of the complex, appears to have been designed more in the style of the mansion than in accordance with the needs of the neighborhood.
About 600 meters from the opulent structure, under court control and indicative of the dome of Argentine football, the rumble of machinery and the movement of bricklayers and trucks formed the backdrop for the area for months.
The appearance of such a work that does not belong to anyone Country clubis even stranger when you move along the main streets towards the neighboring neighborhoods.
Located on the edge of Villa Rosa, the landscape ends abruptly Dirt roads, modest houses, semi-green lots and a rhythm of life that preserves the dynamism of rural tasks. “This is a working-class neighborhood where it is safe to live, so the settlement started slowly. But it is a modest neighborhood, built with effort, in small plots, and in addition there are plots with other characteristics,” emphasize the neighbors.
For those who know the history of the Villa Rosa corridor, the presence of luxury properties or well-known surnames is nothing new. The area has functioned as a for decades discreet refuge from executives, business people and operators.
Some call it, without euphemism, “a peninsula of power”: an enclave in which they excel Enrique “Coty” Nosigliathe former president Fernando de la Rua – who spent his last years there – and former head of SIDE Fernando de Santibañes. Daniel Angeliciformer president of Boca, admitted that he lived just a few steps away from the villa under investigation.
The institutional complaint filed by Elisa Carrio and the legislators Juan Facundo del Gaiso And Matias Yofe points to two alleged intermediaries: Luciano Nicolas Pantanoa Class G Monotributist who was appointed President of the Argentine Civil Association for Futsal and Beach Soccer in the Tapia era; And Ana Lucia Contea retiree with no financial background that would justify an investment of this magnitude.
Both appear as partners of Real Central SRL – formerly Central Park Drinks – a company founded in 2021 with initial capital of just $300,000. For the complainants, the tax profiles of the owners make any reasonable explanation for the purchase of a property worth millions impossible.
The presentation points to the company’s sudden capital growth, the lack of documentation supporting the capital injection and Pantano’s connections to football leaders: treasurer of Almirante Brown, business partner of Lucas Labbad – former manager of Boca during the management of Angelici – and active in the sports environment.
According to the complaint, these combined elements represent typical signs of a maneuver Money laundering Typical of Article 303 of the Criminal Code: acquisition and concealment of allegedly illegal assets through sham structures aimed at preventing the traceability of funds.
Last week, a group traveling in the area was warned by private staff and forced to provide identification. “That’s when all the excitement about this started. We had gone for a walk because this is a quiet area, and as we walked in the door, The property’s private security began questioning uscommented a woman who lives in El Overo II, the area’s newest neighborhood.
“Several workers live in these neighborhoods and at that time there were talks about moving the horses to a series of vacant plots between La Rioja and Mendoza, but later this did not materialize,” he added in contact with this medium.
Carrió and the leaders of the Citizens’ Coalition have also included publications on social networks as evidence in the case. Underneath, paradoxically, is the message that Carlos Tevez He dedicated March 5, 2024 Tovigginowhich acts as the digital praetorian arm of the AFA.
In this post, the current coach and former football player questioned the leader’s alleged links to an estate in Pilar and accused him of flaunting a collection of old and imported cars “He buried bags.” come from trips to Qatar and games in China.
Some remember the first rumors that circulated some time ago about the supposed owner of the villa. “At that time they said it was from Tevez, but we never knew“said a neighbor from El Overo I about the Talleres coach near Angelici.
With the federal judge Daniel Rafecas Although the officer temporarily in charge of the case at the complex at 4000 Misiones Street did not yet have a search warrant or a subpoena to testify. The first step will be crucial for the complainants: “An urgent raid must be launched and Tevez summoned as a witness“.
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