The treasurer of Sur Finanzas, her driver and another woman are there the three detainees against whom charges have already been brought for alleged money laundering against the financial company of Ariel Vallejo, a man close to the president of the AFA, Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia.
The first arrest took place this Thursday during the raid on a warehouse in Turdera, south of the suburbs of Buenos Aires. During this operation, the Federal Police arrested Micaela Sánchez, treasurer of Sur Finanzas, who had hidden five cell phones under one of the seats of a Toyota SW4 truck.
But she wasn’t the only one who fell. In recent hours, they also arrested the driver and a woman who were with Sánchez when the treasurer was caught taking boxes of documents and cell phones from the warehouse.
After three consecutive raids on the AFA headquarters, clubs and offices of Sur Finanzas, the judge is expected to make an announcement in the next few hours Luis Armella order new procedures.
The operation that killed Sánchez this Thursday was carried out after an anonymous call to the prosecutor’s office by a person who introduced himself as Hugo, 72 years old and a merchant from Turdera, who said that 20 to 25 days ago he had seen four vans with the inscription “Sur Finanzas” carrying out what he called a move.
The man said boxes were being taken out of the trucks and driven into one Warehouse located at 11818 Hipólito Yrigoyen Avenue This is next to a laundry room and close to the Turdera branch. “They brought a lot of boxes,” the anonymous person said. He also pointed out that the trucks – Toyota SW4 – had made several trips for the same purpose.
When federal police arrived at the scene to carry out the raid ordered by prosecutor Cecilia Incardona, they found the treasurer loading boxes into the Toyota SW4. In addition to documentation, They found five cell phones hidden under one of the truck’s seats.
From the warehouse they took seven safes – four of them large -, postal networks, vehicle documents, computers, four ultrasound machines, 30 boxes of documents and five ATMs.
The events of the last few days are a case of suspected money laundering by the financial company and the Banfield Club. It supplements a complaint filed by DGI-ARCA against the company for allegedly evading the check tax amounting to 3,300 million pesos and handling more than 800 billion pesos by people who were incapable of handling money or who did not exist.
These arrests come as this Friday police, using straw men, carry out a raid on the villa in the town of Pilar, Buenos Aires, attributed to Tapia and the company’s treasurer, Pablo Toviggino. 54 vehicles that were found in a warehouse have already been confiscated on site.
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