The treasurer of the financial company linked to Chiqui Tapia changed lawyers twice and refused to testify

Last Thursday, a new variable was introduced in the case of the financial company South Financeby Ariel Vallejo, associated with the President of the AFA, Claudio Chiqui Tapia. In a raid crucial to the case, promoted by Judge Luis Armella, was none other than Treasurer of the suspicious company, Micaela Sánchez. The surprise of the investigators lay in the investigative testimony of a woman who knows much of the secrets of the company, through which a flow of money amounting to several million dollars flowed and with which Signs that they were used to launder currencies of criminal origin.

In it Hearing with the judgeTreasurer Sánchez showed obvious signs of fear, nervousness, restlessness and unpredictability. She answered simple questions poorly and intentionally withheld answers that could have benefited her, or vice versa. The air in the atmosphere thickened. The judge then found that the Sánchez’s lawyers had been appointed as defense attorneys in this investigation by other directors of Sur Finanzas. This made the witness uncomfortable. The same lawyers acknowledged that continuing to attend the deposition could harm them from a judicial perspective.

The Treasurer accepted the facts and changed lawyers. The person who came to defend her, this time a woman, suggested it to her directlyand refused to answer Armella’s questions. That’s how it happened. Sanchez was arrested. During these hours of coming and going with occasional changes of lawyers, the investigators present had the feeling that the treasurer would rather comply “Pact of Silence” implicitly or explicitly to avoid problems with her superiors, even if she harms herself.

Because? Is Sanchez threatened? The person who told the federal forces agents that the treasurer was upset due to pressure from the Sur Finanzas authorities was his mother.

It happens that Sánchez herself ordered the police to go to her mother’s house: she was the one who had the keys to some of the houses Large safes that the judiciary discovered in a property that was not known to belong to the Vallejos financial companythe same place where the woman was held, trembling in fear.

Sánchez’s mother confessed to detectives that her daughter did not live with her, but accepted that she had moved there in recent days because she was more or less “pressured” but said in that sense. The keys to the safe were where the treasurer said. The mother handed her over. There was no money in the huge, opening safes, but there was money very valuable documents for the investigations against Armella and the prosecutor Cecilia Incardona. In addition to the treasurer, two men who worked with her like “security buttons” were arrested. They didn’t speak either. Be silent. A pact?

What seemed like the beginning of Sánchez’s cooperation with the judiciary by telling who had the keys to the safes was a first gesture and nothing more. Again he didn’t help in any way. Now the first three prisoners in the Sur Finanzas case are analyzing their new situation, locked in different cells.

Why did Sánchez prefer silence, contradictory answers, or avoid the judge’s questions?

The Sur Finanzas cause gathers more and more evidence and begins to pave paths to very powerful people, in addition to expanding in large numbers evidence of the large amount of money the company transacted with the AFA clubs. And with the AFA itself. Since Friday, the judiciary has had further contracts between the financial company, whose existence they did not know, with the same clubs that had already been found to have engaged in irregular financial maneuvers.

She was the main actor in the operation that imprisoned the taciturn Sánchez. And it is an amazing story that links extraordinary events together.

Things started like this. A resident of Turdera, who did not want to be identified, contacted the court in Armella to report this a deposit from Sur Financeslocated in their town, there have been strange movements of trucks and men for days.

Armella and his team had not identified this object as one of the many Sur Finanzas objects they had searched.

Within a few days of the investigation, the judge not only ordered a raid on Sur Finanzas and dozens of offices through which the money under investigation flowed, but also seized documents relating to contracts from a large number of AFA football clubs which were also searched by the court in the case. Including the AFA itself.

After Armella received new information about the financial company’s deposit in Turdera, he ordered its search. When officers arrived at the scene, they discovered that the treasurer, Micaela Sánchez, was leaving the house in a Toyota SW4 truck along with her two “butts.” They followed them to stop them. They lost the vehicle on a corner. They then decided to return to the mysterious warehouse to confiscate any material that might be of interest to the case.

The police were already back at the building, barely visible by the graffiti-covered door, when they were overcome by surprise.

The truck carrying Sánchez returned “to the scene of the incident.” They probably never assumed that the warehouse had been identified and would be searched by agents. The truck carrying Sánchez tried to escape. This time she was arrested. She remained in the vehicle, watched by her security accomplices, Dozens of documents from Sur Finanzas full of information and other evidence in the casein addition to protecting computers that should be wiped by an expert. At one point in the van, the treasurer hid six cell phones. She was arrested for obstruction of justice.

As the hours passed, researchers began to understand why it was possible that a possible “pact of silence” was spreading among the guards of this place. They never imagined what they would find in this place.

According to qualified sources in this case, in this bail They discovered further contracts between the clubs under investigation and Sur Finanzas. Further documents linked to Sponsorship payments created by the financial company. And even payments for Loans to sports companies whereby the Vallejos company would always benefit from the interests.

Not to mention, the agents took dozens of computers containing additional contracts and supposedly key evidence in the case.

There are several clubs involved: including San Lorenzo, Racing, Acassuso, Excursionistas, Barracas Central (from which leader Tapia stood out until promoted to the AFA), Estrella del Norte, Banfield, Atlanta, Argentinos Juniors and more. Many more. Well, with further unknown contracts until this Friday.

Anyone who wanted to hide this documentary “treasure” could not do so. The treasurer was one of those responsible for carrying out this task. It was later learned that the truck in which she was held was also used to transport money at other times.

Among other inconsistencies that made authorities suspicious, She admitted in her investigation that she was the treasurer of the financial company, she admitted that her boss was Vallejobut she fell into an atrocious silence when asked who had ordered her to hide the material of absolute interest. One example among several.

The fact is that the Sur Finanzas authorities had never informed the judiciary that there were other documents about the signature in this hidden place in Turdera. The surprise in the Armella dish was total.

In addition to the possible evidence of more mismanagement of money in AFA clubs, in the secret office of Sur Finanzas There were three ATMs. And even high-quality medical instruments. A machine for performing mammograms. And even a tomograph.

Because? Be silent. Currently.