The judicial investigation into the luxurious Villa Rosa mansion in Pilar has added a key piece of information that once again places the Argentine Football Association (AFA) at the center of the scene. Economic criminal court judge Marcelo Aguinsky revealed that the alleged front man for the property, Luciano Pantano, was using an AFA corporate credit card to cover monthly expenses of nearly 50 million pesos.
Pantano, a self-employed taxpayer and the formal owner of the mansion under investigation, appears to be linked to high-value expenditures that, according to the case file, were paid with an American Express card associated with an AFA corporate account. The statements were also sent to the association's headquarters on Viamonte Street at 1300, in the City of Buenos Aires.
In a ruling in which he refused to recuse himself from the case and send it to the Federal Court of Campana, Aguinsky maintained that the "epicenter" of the case is not the country house in Pilar but AFA itself, whose registered office is located in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. For the judge, the core of the maneuvers under analysis is concentrated there.
Among the detected expenditures are toll payments corresponding to several of the 54 high-end vehicles that were seized on the Villa Rosa property. The judge emphasized that these expenses are repeated month after month and average 50 million pesos between January and December 2025, a volume that is difficult to reconcile with the tax profile of the alleged front man.
