The businessman Javier Faroniwho is being investigated for the diversion of millionaires’ funds in connection with the AFA, tried to leave Argentina for Uruguay last night, but was stopped at the Metropolitan Airport by order of the judiciary. As he knew ClarionThe National Migration Directorate arrested him on the orders of Judge Luis Armella, who is handling the case regarding alleged fraud in football which banned him from leaving the country. He carried his entire family’s passports with him.
Amid the tug of war of the situation, sources confirm that the former deputy of the Renewal Front of Sergio Massa threw away his cell phone after the notification of the exit ban. The suspicious movement was recorded by the airport’s security cameras and now specialists are analyzing the videos to find out who he gave the device to.
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According to sources, the businessman had his passport and that of his family with him, although they can fly to Uruguay with their ID card. His relatives would be in Montevideo.
Faroni, who joined the board of Aerolíneas Argentinas during the administration of Alberto Fernández due to his proximity to massism, is related to TourProdEnterthe company that managed AFA’s $260 million overseas and allegedly diverted at least $42 million to a group of supposedly fictitious companies.
The maneuvers would have been carried out through contracts signed by the AFA board to use the rights of the national team, with Tapia at the helm and his right-hand man Pablo Toviggino. Faroni’s company was registered in Miami by Erica Gillette, the businessman’s wife.
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office No. 2 of Lomas de Zamora, led by Cecilia Incardona, together with the General Prosecutor’s Office for Economic Crimes and Money Laundering (PROCELAC), led by Attorney General Diego Velasco, have in the last hours expanded the scope of an ongoing investigation into money laundering and requested a series of urgent evidentiary measures.
The verdict was presented to the competent Federal Court, presided over by Luis Armella, and included requests for raids, the lifting of banking and tax secrecy and requirements for international cooperation in a case that prosecutors said would have brought to light new criminal hypotheses during the course of the investigation.
According to the judge’s presentation, the aim is to include elements that, if confirmed, would make it possible to link money laundering maneuvers carried out in the country with financial circuits of transnational importance that would have used professional football structures as operational support.
The investigation focuses on the company Sur Finanzas PSP SA and companies associated with its economic group, which acted as financial suppliers to several football clubs. According to the tax hypothesis, these are companies They simultaneously concentrated sponsorship, financing and payment management functions, a scheme that would have resulted in “systemic opacity.” conducive to the recycling of funds of illegal origin.
In this context, the AFA is also mentioned, which, according to the investigations, would have fulfilled a functional role Debtor assigned in operations for the assignment of collection rights, especially in connection with television. This mechanism would have allowed legitimate institutional funds to be deposited directly into accounts of the suspect financial structure.
The opinion also takes into account a new line of international research. Prosecutors believe there is evidence that the company was allegedly diverting funds to the United States. TourProdEnter LLCwith subsequent spread to, among other things, companies based in the state of Florida Soagu Services LLC, Marmasch LLC, Velp LLC and Velpasalt Global LLC. Therefore, it was necessary to expand the investigation against Faroni and his wife Erica Gillete.
In addition, they requested investigations into four individuals who appear to be administrators of companies in the United States, but whose financial profiles do not match the amounts of money moving between the suspicious companies. They are Javier Alejandro Ojeda Jara, Mariela Marisa Schmalz, Verónica Inés López and Roberto Josué Salice.
According to the fiscal hypothesis, they would have an economic profile that would be incompatible with the amounts they manage, a fact that would be consistent with schemes to engage loan sharks.
The case remains at the investigative stage and the requested measures are aimed at reconstructing the entire monetary circuit and identifying possible criminal liability.
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