US Justice investigates a company related to the Argentine Football Association

The United States Justice requested information about a company in that country related to the Argentine Football Association (AFA) which included the president of the institution, Claudio ‘Chiqui’ Tapiaand its treasurer, Pablo Tovigginoaccording to local media this Wednesday.

The Southern District Court of the state of Florida (United States) requested information for a preliminary investigation into the company TourProdEnter LLCallegedly employed by the AFA as its commercial agent outside Argentina, where the courts of the South American country are also pursuing a case against Tapia, Toviggino and other directors for alleged diversion of funds.

Argentine media such as Infobae or Clarín reported this Wednesday around midday in Argentina that the FBI The American had seized the cell phones and electronic devices of several executives of the AFA before the national team delegation took off back from New York after the defeat in the 2026 World Cup final last Sunday and that the courts of that country required them to appear on July 30.

Gregorio DalbonAFA’s lawyer, sent EFE an official statement from AFA in which they deny the fact and emphasize that the request for information from the US Justice Department is not directed at Tapia or any of the directors.

“It is absolutely false to claim that Claudio Tapia either Pablo Toviggino have been summoned to testify by the United States Justice, and it is also false to maintain that cell phones or any other electronic device have been seized from them,” stated the text released by the AFA.

“The Argentine Football Association urges the media and those who carry out journalistic activity to adequately verify the content of the documents before publishing statements that do not find support in them, remembering that informative rigor constitutes an essential duty of responsible journalism,” the statement added, referring to the first version of the news published by Clarín and Infobae.

Shortly before the start of the World Cup, the Miami Herald newspaper stated that, after a review of banking and commercial records in the United States, some 40 million dollars from AFA revenues had passed through TourProdEnter to companies without an apparent commercial justification.

The newspaper specifies that with part of these resources, a couple from South Florida linked to TourProdEnter acquired four properties in high-value residential areas between 2021 and 2025.

Investigators, according to that Miami Herald article, analyzed whether these operations could constitute money laundering or fraud through the US banking system. They also investigated other possible uses of the funds, such as rental of luxury jets and yachts, motor sports companies and a company dedicated to services for thoroughbred horses.

In the investigation by the Argentine courts, the company TourProdEnter LLC – linked to theater producer Javier Faroni – would have acted as the international commercial agent of the AFA, with exclusive representation outside Argentina for the management of sponsorship agreements and events, in addition to intervening in the collection of contracts abroad.

For these services, he received a commission of 30% of the income generated and another 10% for logistical tasks.

Justice in Argentina seeks to determine whether the funds from these contracts could be linked to the purchase of a property in Pilar, valued at about 17 million dollars, whose formal ownership corresponds to third parties and for which there are suspicions of having been acquired through intermediaries by Toviggino.