the money conspiracy, ghost companies and the issues affecting Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia

Two weeks after the scandal broke out at Sur Finanzas, the related financial company Claudio “Chiqui” TapiaA series of complaints have been filed with the judiciary against actors linked to the President of the AFA, accusing them of alleged evasion and money laundering.

The files are different, they are filed in different areas, such as the justice of Lomas de Zamora, that of Comodoro Py and the economic criminal justice system, and they also investigate the existence of Frontmen and buying real estate and luxury cars.

Below are details about what has been reported and how each investigation involving Tapia is progressing, based on the involvement of people close to him, such as: B. the financier Maximiliano Ariel Vallejo, or to his right hand in the AFA, Pablo Toviggino.

The Sur Finanzas pot was uncovered on November 24th after it was revealed that Vallejo, owner of the virtual wallet, had a case for alleged money laundering where his links to football emerge and after the firm was raided as part of the National Disability Agency’s investigation into the money routes in a bribery case.

The next day, DGI filed a lawsuit against the financial company at the Lomas de Zamora court alleged evasion of 818,000 million pesos. As the investigation revealed, Sur Finanzas, which is formally owned by Ariel Vallejo, also evaded payment more than 3,300 million pesos under the check tax.

This huge structure dedicated to money laundering, born from the work of the Southern Region of the AFIP, revolves around Sur Finanzas, a small company founded four years ago in Adrogué that, with the help of the AFA and its president Chiqui Tapia, became a privileged advertiser and lender to clubs in the first division of Argentine football.

The company under investigation was founded in 2022 under the name Neblockchain SA in a department of Adrogué, but according to the study by the Customs Collection and Control Agency, in November 2023 it began to develop greater activity as a cryptocurrency operator and as a virtual wallet dedicated to processing and managing payments from small business customers. In August 2024, the company will change its name to Sur Finanzas PSP SA.

Clarion Access exclusive information revealing that 9% of this amount was laundered through 42 apocryphal companies or fake customers. The total amount is 72,342 million pesos and will be increased another 27% issued invoices to customers without financial capacity to perform this level of operations.

These percentages are in turn added to the 31% of so-called “uncategorized individuals” who settled a total of 223,441 million pesos in the virtual wallet. The 27% mentioned above now correspond to 32 monotributists who have moved 193,599 million.

The investigation surrounding the role and connection that four lower category Monotributistas had with Vallejo, the strongman of Sur Finanzas, is progressing. There are four young profiles, between 30 and 35 years old, registered between categories A and D and who They have mobilized 120,000 million pesos in the last two years. One of them, Ignacio M, moved about 87,000 million.

A week ago, the case escalated in media relevance after Elisa Carrió and the Citizens’ Coalition filed a complaint against two people alleged frontmen the man who holds the reins of Argentine football.

Together with the President of the Pilar Civic Coalition, Matias Yofeand to the Buenos Aires legislature Facundo del GaisoCarrio called for an investigation Luciano Nicolás Pantano and Ana Lucía Contea monotributista and pensioner, for purchasing a stunning mansion in Villa Rosa, Pilar.

Pantano and Conte are the owners of Real Central SRL., a company that, according to the document it accessed Clarionwould have acquired the property consisting of two properties with a total area of 105,384.80 square meters.

“The above address, according to the information gathered, would correspond to a large country house where it would be located Collector cars, a stud farm for Arabian and thoroughbred racehorses, horse training track, helipad and several sports facilities,” says the text of the presentation.

During the week, based on a statement from the former Boca president Daniel Angelici to the newspaper The nationIt turned out that the house was in reality It would be Pablo Toviggino, Tapia’s bishop in AFA, and that these alleged frontmen were linked to the main leader of central Córdoba in Santiago del Estero.

Furthermore, as revealed Clarion, Real Central SRL, the company owned by the pensioner and her monotributist son, had a total of 120 vehicles registered in their name, including one Ferrari, Porsche, BMWs, collector cars, Motorcycles and more.

It currently has 59 vehicles, but in just over three years, historical records show that between 2022 and the end of November 2025, more than 100 vehicles were moved.

The Sur Finanzas scandal investigated by the Justice of Lomas de Zamora, as well as the parallel file processed in the economic criminal justice system and the complaint of the Citizens Coalition represent the main aspects of the network in which Tapia is involved.

Last week, economic criminal judge Javier López Biscayart refused to intervene in the complaint filed by the Citizens’ Coalition for the mansion in the town of Pilar, Buenos Aires. Almost at the same time, the federal judge in Buenos Aires, Daniel Rafecas, ordered a series of measures against those involved on Friday.

Therefore, this week will be crucial for the future of criminal proceedings. The expectation is that it will be defined which judge will have jurisdiction over the case: yes Rafecas or López Biscayart. There was a dispute between the two about the cause, which must be clarified by the Federal Chamber.

Rafecas will be responsible for the file until the appeals court gives its opinion. That’s why he decided on Friday to lift the tax, banking and stock exchange secrecy of Luciano Pantano, Ana Conte, Lucas Labbad and the company Real Central SRL. He also requested a detailed account of all his assets and income and the creation of an asset profile.