The recording, attributed to Juan Pablo Beacon, former AFA leader and partner of Pablo Toviggino, details a circuit with irregular contracts and money laundering abroad
The Argentine Football Association (AFA) was once again at the center of the controversy after the release of an alleged audio detailing a mechanism for diverting millions of dollars from the entity. The message, attributed to lawyer Juan Pablo Beacon, former leader of the institution and close collaborator of Pablo Toviggino, is now
in the hands of Justice.
In the recording released by TN, about three minutes long, Beacon describes an operation that, in his words, involved "a very specific route of money involving fraud, money laundering and violation of the exchange rate law at the time of the breach”.
According to his story, the funds came out of the AFA with “the appearance of legality”, through irregular contracts or fictitious services.
“Either with a contract, withimplausible social objects that didn't exist, provision of services with absolutely abstract objects, or I cameup withtrickery contracts or withreal contractsnot passed by a committeethat ended up being detrimental to a third party,” he explained.
The circuit continued abroad, mainly in Spain, through companies linked to the AFA that allowed administrative maneuvers, such as terminations or addenda, to be carried out without the control of the Executive Committee. This, according to the audio, made it easier to generate additional movements and make it difficult to track money
.
Later, these funds were distributed among different European firms belonging to the same business group. “I have a name, last name, documentation and proof of everything I'm saying,” Beacon said in the audio
.
Later, he explained that the funds were returned to the country through informals. “During that period, weworked with three specific caves. Once I was accredited, the cave would give me the okay and I would drop the money in cash,” he said. To erase all traces of the money, Beacon states that “everything was handled in cash and the money disappeared from the account”, moving everything physically and keeping everything out
of the formal system. Beacon was a Toviggino partner
The audio also mentions the use of false documentation as part of the mechanism. As described, apocryphal communications and scriptures were used to support movements of large sums of money. It even refers to a specific case in which a "multi-million dollar contract" would have been certified, which, in fact, corresponded to the
purchase and sale of a vehicle.
In the final stretch, Beacon said it had a significant amount of evidence to support its claims. “I have about 500 conversation sheets with the guy. It's absolutely everything,” he said. He added: "This is part of a series of behaviors that are absolutely illegal. Then there was a diversion of silver with checks to friendly clubs, that is well
documented.”
The court case seeks to reconstruct the route of some 260 million dollars that the AFA would have received from abroad for sponsorship contracts, friendly matches and the AFA Play platform. As the investigation progresses, the audio content adds a new chapter to a case that could have strong repercussions on Argentine football
