The complicated judicial front that the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and several of its main leaders are going through has added a new chapter. The economic criminal prosecutor Claudio Navas Rial requested to expand the investigation against the unpresentable Claudio "Chiqui" Tapia, his right-hand man, the treasurer Pablo Toviggino, and other authorities of Argentine football for alleged aggravated evasion maneuvers through the systematic use of false invoices and fictitious companies.
The presentation was made before Judge Diego Amarante based on a complaint initiated by the Revenue and Customs Control Agency (ARCA), which detected million-dollar irregularities in operations carried out between 2023 and 2025. According to the prosecutor's request, the entity would have used suppliers without real operational capacity to conceal the final destination of funds linked to the tax on Undocumented Exits and reduce tax burdens.
The investigation claims that the maneuver included fictitious invoicing, non-existent addresses, companies without employees or verifiable activity, banking inconsistencies, and closed financial circuits considered irregular, through 24 suspected suppliers. The amount under analysis exceeds 916 million pesos, while the estimated adjustment in favor of the treasury is around 320 million, including interest and fines. Navas Rial also warned that the operations "would have been repeated and sustained over an uninterrupted period of time", prompting him to request an evaluation of whether there was a possible "tax criminal association".
Among the questioned companies is Central Hotel SRL, which invoiced nearly 9.6 million pesos for supposed works at the Ezeiza site despite being registered as a hotel company. According to the investigation, the checks issued for those payments ended up linked to buying and selling livestock operations.
Another of the highlighted cases is that of Capadoccia SRL, which issued invoices for more than 56 million pesos related to works and materials. However, ARCA was unable to locate the company and one of the individuals listed as a partner stated that they were completely unaware of the firm and claimed that another person was collecting money for signing documentation.
