Buenos Aires police searched the home of Matías Yofe, leader of the Citizens Coalition (CC) and one of the main complainants of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), with party authorities denouncing it as a “mafia-like operation”.
The operation was requested by prosecutor Germán Camafreitas and approved by San Isidro judge Walter Federico Saettone as part of an investigation into “suspected robbery or theft.” In addition, cell phones, technical storage devices, computers and documents were confiscated.
The chairwoman of the Central Committee, Elisa Carrió, described the operation as a “mafioso procedure” aimed at intimidation.
“They crossed a line that is my family. They threatened my wife, they entered my house completely irregularly,” Yofe said in radio statements.
Reports of violence and intimidation
At the time of the raid, Yofe was in Mar del Plata. His wife stayed in the house with their four-month-old daughter. According to Civic Coalition sources, the operation was “violent and brutal.”
They said officers did not show the search warrant upon entry and that the leader’s wife was reportedly threatened with arrest and separation from their baby.
Carrió went to the scene to help the family and shot down the judicial measure: “I have never seen a mafia justice and police operation like this,” he said.
The CC’s suspicion is that the operation aims to silence the progress of the case surrounding a mansion in Villa Rosa, Pilar, worth $20 million.
Carrió’s entourage directly links this raid to the power of the AFA. “When taking action against dark companies, such maneuvers always happen,” they noted in an official statement, suggesting that the real goal was to seize confidential information stored on the leader’s devices.
As tension mounts, the main case for Pilar’s property – which includes expert reports to determine its true value – falls under the jurisdiction of Judge Marcelo Aguinsky.
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