María Florencia Sartirana, girlfriend of the AFA treasurer, Pablo Toviggino, was at the center of a financial scandal after a bank decided to close its accounts after detecting movements of more than $10 billion and reporting the operations as suspicious to the Central Bank.
The situation originated in the Coinag bank, an entity based in Rosario, where in just three months, August, October and November of last year, an extraordinary volume of funds was collected through at least 12 companies. According to the ongoing judicial investigation, these firms are linked to the AFA treasurer, Pablo Toviggino
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The transfers exceeded $10 billion and have characteristics that aroused strong suspicion.
According to the data collected, several of the companies involved are SMEs with addresses in small stores in Santiago del Estero and without registered employees.Toviggino and Maria Florencia Sartirana.
Added to this are additional evidence, such as footage of people entering the bank with bags to
make cash deposits.
The money was later channeled into financial instruments such as fixed terms, in operations that are now being analyzed by the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Santiago del Estero. The magnitude of the numbers and the dynamics of the movements set off alarm bells even within the bank itself
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The companies involved, including Lindor and Neurus, were created in May 2025 and, just a month later, they began to receive significant sums of money linked to the Argentine football circuit. Sartirana is listed as the holder of the accounts where these funds were concentrated
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Faced with this operation, the Coinag bank decided to act. In December, it reported the transactions as suspicious and proceeded to close all linked accounts. “In relation to the Lindor and Neurus companies in the Coinag Bank, they only operated during the year 2025. They were reported and have been closed since December 2025,” the entity reported
. Chiqui Tapia and Pablo Toviggino.
The institution also claimed to have complied with current regulations: “The entity has strict technical and financial evaluation processes aligned with banking market standards and in strict compliance with regulations established by the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic
(BCRA).”
The bank also explained that it carries out permanent controls: “In accordance with current regulations and the detailed analysis of its clients' operations, Coinag Bank, as an obligated entity, performs due diligence monitoring on them.”
After the accounts were closed, the funds would have been transferred to another entity. According to Central Bank sources, “the deposits they had in Coinag were transferred to accounts of those companies at Banco Credicoop
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The case escalated even more when federal prosecutor Pedro Simón requested the arrest and prohibition of the assets of Claudio Tapia and Toviggino for alleged money laundering.
