Federal Judge Lomas de Zamora Federico This Tuesday, he refused to excuse himself from the case in which the financier linked to Chiqui Tapia, Ariel Vallejo, is being investigated. Thus began an attempt to gain jurisdiction in the politically sensitive money laundering and tax evasion case between four judges.
And in the decision he approved ClarionVelina decided this Tuesday Not approving the request to refer the case for objectively and subjectively relevant reasons In case no. 50354/2025 entitled “Sur Finanzas PSP S/ Violation of Article 303” issued by Public Prosecutor Cecilia Incardona.
The case was opened last week due to a complaint from the General Directorate of Public Security and Incardona, although Villena had been chosen by the Federal Chamber of La Plata to be the competent judge, and he submitted his request for investigation before the Federal Judge of Quilmes. Luis Armilla, who arranged the raid on Sur Finanzas and the kidnapping of Vallejo’s phone, among other evidentiary actions.
that way, Federal Chamber of La Plata He will have to decide whether it is appropriate for Armila to continue investigating the DGI complaint or to transfer it to Felina, who has a series of disagreements with Incardona.
But Sur Finance, though in other aspects, has been investigated since 2021 by Buenos Aires federal judge Maria Eugenia Capocchetti in the case of dollar maneuvers during the shares of former president Alberto Fernández and by economic criminal judge Maria Straccia. While Federal Judge Maria Cervini has four cases. All this without mentioning that Judge Sebastian Casanello raided Sur Finanzas in the case of the directive of contracts at the National Agency for Disabled Persons (ANDIS).
Villena emphasized in his decision that the defendants and companies are different in the case because of the DGI complaint and in a previous complaint filed by Incardona against the so-called Banfileña Reconstruction Trust for the sale of a player to the Juarez team from Mexico.
“That is, the criminal hypothesis drawn up by the representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office differs from the criminal hypothesis reported by ARCA and confuses even those investigated in case FLP 29107/2025 with the $818,000,000,000 that manages the virtual wallets of Sur Finanzas PSP that has no relation to those investigated in the case reported by Incardona,” Villena said.
The judge stressed that “they do not appear in the lists that constitute the users of those wallets that transferred this amount of money and that the Banfileña Reconstruction Fund is not within this world either because the amount reported for the said fund was $0. Moreover, this matter is not interpretive but express and literal, and the complainant herself declared under oath that she did not report the persons accused by the Public Prosecutor, and therefore the objective and subjective relationship raised does not exist.”
Villena added that the complaint of the General Directorate of Public Security “covered the formalities required by Article 176 of the Official Order, a circumstance that does not merit the formation of a preliminary investigation by Dr. Cecilia Incardona, especially when it is possible to request the requested documents and information by the same means by which the complaint was received.”