Corruption in the AFA: Tapia and Toviggino have already named ten intermediaries to collect contracts from the National Team and there are suspicions about millionaire transfers.

Since Pablo Toviggino arrived at the AFA Treasury, the Argentine football entity had ten parallel "collection agents" abroad instead of receiving payments from the national team sponsors directly into their accounts. These intermediaries, without much work, kept up to 30 percent of the flows from firms like Adidas or Google. And those millions of dollars, up to this year, were not properly registered in the AFA's balances. These are just some of the suspicious movements of the Association headed by Claudio "Chiqui" Tapia. Why were those intermediaries hired? Why were they paid those high commissions? Was there any kind of return for the leaders who hired them? These are doubts circulating in the football world and in judicial offices. Moon Euro Management LLC, the new collection agent based in Dubai—a very opaque tax haven for money movements—seems chosen to move the money outside of United States banks, where three prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation into Toviggino, Tapia, and other leaders. Except for the conglomerate of companies owned by Fabián Saracco, which were later replaced by TourProdEnter LLC, the company of Javier Faroni and his partner, Érica Gillette, none of the companies entered into a framework agreement as commercial agents. The AFA unilaterally designated them in each of the contracts they were involved in as collection agents. As Clarín revealed, the AFA's collection agents only exist on paper, on websites set up to appear legal, with photographs bought from image banks or generated with AI, without verifiable social networks, employees, and clients, among other particularities. And Moon Euro Management LLC, the last collection agent designated by the AFA, is no exception. According to the company's registration with the Department of Economy and Tourism in Dubai, the firm was registered as an "LLC-SO". LLC stands for "Limited Liability Company" and "SO" stands for Single Owner. The newspaper La Nación published that its commercial license was registered on May 5th and allows the company to operate in the fields of "marketing management" and "sports event marketing". Moon Euro Management LLC declared its address as "office 203-279 of the Albahar building, Al Khabeesi, Dubai". According to some real estate agents in Dubai, offices of between 8 and 16 square meters, with or without furniture, "which often include basic services like Wi-Fi, air conditioning, and electricity in the annual rental contract". According to Clarín's reconstruction, that "office no. 203-279, owned by Hamad Mohamed Abdulrahman Al-Bahar-Al-Khabisi" is a virtual office rented for an annual cost ranging between 22 thousand and 35 thousand dollars. Dubai's free zones In the address declared by Moon Euro Management LLC, Aabi Chartered Accountants operates, a professional firm of auditing, accounting, and financial consulting based in Dubai. It also provides financial, accounting, and regulatory services to startups, SMEs, and multinational corporations operating in the free zones. Among its services, it offers the constitution and registration of companies. All the collection agents designated by the AFA show characteristics of a special purpose vehicle (SPV), for its zero operational activity and absolute dependence on transactions with other companies. In other words, their main function is to be a financial pass-through vehicle. Moon Euro Management LLC is added to the list. The money movements of the AFA's collection agents Odeoma Gestión SL (Spain) has a trade name called Gold Medal Sports (Spain), which is composed of GM Sport Services LLC (United States) and Fútbol Capital SA (Paraguay), received at least 30,534,422 dollars. For its part, Stratega Group, composed of Stratega Consulting USA LLC (United States) and Stratega Business Consulting Limited (United Kingdom), pocketed at least 13,064,200 dollars. And Q22 Services Limited (Guernsey) collected 6,542,000 dollars, from its role as collection agent and what was billed directly to the AFA. All these companies belong to Saracco, a 62-year-old accountant from Santiago, who was a member of the inner circle of Pablo Ariel Toviggino, AFA treasurer, and very close to the former governor of Santiago del Estero, Gerardo Zamora. Suddenly, on December 7, 2021, and supposedly by mutual agreement, all contracts with Saracco's companies were rescinded, according to official documents. The explanation was found two days later, on December 9, 2021, when the AFA signed a commercial agent agreement with TourProdEnter LLC, the company of Faroni and Gillette. As Clarín revealed in February, Star Rights Limited, a company created in Malta on December 20, 2017, and declared "non-operational" since its reorganization in 2020, managed a little over 11.7 million euros, according to the 2024 company balance. By the agreement with the AFA, which extends until June 30, 2029, Genius Sports Technologies will pay the AFA 40,223,000 dollars in annual installments. For this contract, as an intermediary, Stratega Consulting USA LLC charges 30%: 12,066,900 dollars. On March 27, 2022, the AFA had requested Genius Sports Technologies to have payments made to TourProdEnter LLC. However, and very striking, a couple of months later, the AFA required Genius Sports Technologies to stop making further money transfers to Faroni and Gillette's company, and instead make the transfers to an account in the name of the company Star Rights Limited, in the Zurich branch of the Swiss bank UBS. In total, the Maltese company transferred 3,530,913 dollars to the accounts of Faroni and Gillette and 676,721 dollars to Global FC LLC. Both companies acted as collection agents of the AFA. Global FC LLC (United States), another money collector for the AFA, received 6,746,015.27 dollars from TourProdEnter and transferred 1,602,000 dollars to the accounts of Faroni and Gillette. Additionally, the company sent one thousand dollars to its own account in another bank. Furthermore, Global FC LLC transferred 70,100 dollars to J&F World Solutions Inc., a company created in the state of Florida on January 6, 2014. According to its website, which has not been updated since 2024, the company is an operator that offers telecommunications solutions. The company's address: 4995 NW 72 Avenue, Suite 205-B, Miami, Florida, corresponds to that of the registered agent Wobpinc Inc. and is temporarily closed. Jorge Ordoñez and Juan Acosta appear as director, manager, or president of the company. Global FC LLC transferred 9,000 dollars to CAE Services LLC on August 8, 2025. Coincidentally, Global FC LLC and CAE Services LLC shared the same address: 30 N Gould Street, suite R, Sheridan, Wyoming, which corresponds to the first registered agent of both firms: Registered Agents Inc. And they are not the only ones. Sports Licensing LLC is a company created in the state of Wyoming on March 9, 2021, which is still active. It could be said that it is sister to Global FC LLC and CAE Services LLC and, consequently, shares several things in common. The annual reports were signed by Andrés Scornik, the Argentine businessman who worked as a commercial advisor for the AFA and at the same time signed at least one agreement on behalf of World Sports Solutions LLC, the parent entity of Argentine football that designated to collect part of its sponsorship agreements abroad. Clarín discovered that Sports Licensing LLC is not only another company of Scornik but also shared as registered agent Registered Agents Inc. and, therefore, the address 30 N Gould Street, suite R, Sheridan, Wyoming. Furthermore, it used the same location in Benavídez that Global FC LLC: Avenida Alvear 501, Lot 30 B, Benavídez, Tigre, in Argentina. Another common denominator is that Sports Licensing LLC changed its registered agent from Registered Agents Inc. (with an address in Wyoming) to Legalinc Corporate Services Inc. (with its location in Miami) and, consequently, its address, on August 22, 2025, a few months after Global FC LLC for the same reasons. And, as in the previous cases, it also moved money from the AFA between collection agents. Sports Licensing LLC transferred 793,000 dollars to TourProdEnter LLC and 5,000 dollars to Global FC LLC. Although Sports Licensing LLC did not appear yet as a collection agent of the AFA, its structure, composition, behavior, and movements are identical to those of its sister companies. According to the documents that Clarín accessed, at least 15 million dollars were transferred between the companies. The web of companies and money movements reveals a closed circuit in which the millions of dollars generated by the AFA's sponsorship and commercial rights flowed through an intricate "matrioshka" of phantom offshore companies, disguised as collection agents and intermediaries, which transferred funds among themselves, charged huge commissions for non-existent or opaque services and modified their internal structures, registered agents, addresses, and bank locations, as alarms or journalistic investigations were triggered. The maneuver is not limited to inserting intermediaries disguised as collection agents. The objective is the diversion of money from the AFA through the invoicing of supposedly non-existent services and the collection of 30% commissions, which do not correspond to any market value. By fragmenting the funds into a labyrinth of cross-transfers and phantom companies, the structure erases the original trail of the money, erases traceability, and atomizes the amounts before being scrutinized. Thus, more than a third of the sponsorship income ended up in a prepared desk maneuver, far from the VAR cameras and institutional control.