Corruption in AFA: Justice prosecuted and seized Chiqui Tapia and Pablo Toviggino

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The judge considered that it was not an economic impossibility, but rather a deliberate decision. In this regard, he stressed that the AFA had sufficient liquidity, with million-dollar investments in fixed terms and financial operations that generated interest capable of covering part of the debt

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Cristian Malaspina, current Secretary General; Víctor Blanco, former Secretary General; and Director General Gustavo Lorenzo, were also prosecuted in the case.

For them, embargoes were arranged, of 350 million pesos in the case of Lorenzo and 150 million for the other leaders, although without restrictions on leaving the country

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In his defense, Tapia denied direct responsibility for tax management and maintained that his role was limited to the "institutional “, dissociating himself from operational decisions. Along the same lines, other managers argued that they had no interference in the fiscal administration or pointed out that the decisions questioned were prior to

their functions.

For his part, Toviggino proposed a technical defense based on current regulations that, according to his position, enabled extensions and fiscal relief schemes, ruling out the existence of fraud. However, the judge rejected these arguments and maintained that there was a systematic maneuver to withhold

State funds.

This ruling constitutes the first prosecution against the leadership of Argentine football in a case of this type, in a context in which other financial movements of the entity are also being analyzed, and may be appealed to the National Economic Criminal Chamber.