Local business owners accuse AFA's treasurer of violent dispossession and forgery of titles in the northern part of the province
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An extremely serious criminal accusation places the treasurer of the Argentine Football Association at the epicenter of a very complex criminal organization. Pablo Toviggino is identified as the alleged ringleader of a gang dedicated to the systematic theft of farmland with very high productive value in Córdoba. The complaints expose a modus operandi based on intimidation and the use of falsified documentation to strip the legitimate owners of their land.
Producers from towns such as Oncativo and Jesús María claim to have lost their properties in the face of the violent advance of this power structure. The case of Bruno Frattari is significant, since his land was usurped to install airstrips linked to drug trafficking activities. This situation shows that the impact of the maneuvers attributed to the sports executive goes beyond the merely commercial to become criminal.
Frattari recounted a conclave where the executive himself allegedly offered to sell the stolen property and share the dividends from that illegal operation. After refusing and going to the federal courts, the businessman from Córdoba had to live under the strict custody of the National Gendarmerie because of the threats. The arrogance with which this national football executive conducts himself reflects a level of impunity that is unsustainable and impossible to conceal.
Pablo Toviggino y Sergio Massa, a quien apoyó durante su candidatura en 2023
The multimillion-dollar dispossession of rural producers
Attorney Edgardo Taboada described this network as a true theft industry that allegedly has already reached control of some 50,000 hectares. The criminal scheme would include everything from violent land occupations to the complicity of notary offices in order to simulate completely legal sales. It is no longer surprising that a Kirchnerist executive (even if a sports one) is linked to fraudulent practices that ruin hardworking families.
While the legal cases in Santiago del Estero remain paralyzed, the victims are crying out for the urgent intervention of the courts. It is suspected that the local political power acts as a protective shield so that Toviggino and his accomplices can continue operating without any real consequence. This lack of official response fuels the feeling of injustice among the victims from Córdoba who see how their assets disappear.
This new scandal adds to the case of Ricardo Simeone, who was also defrauded by the treasurer in a purchase of non-existent public land. The background details a sinister figure who uses his influence in sports to cover up fraudulent maneuvers of enormous magnitude. It is imperative for the national justice system to move forward firmly in order to dismantle this apparatus of corruption that today exposes the entire leadership of AFA.
