Pilar’s Mansion & Arsenal de Sarandí: Toviggino Link

DGI invoices in the name of Pablo Toviggino’s girlfriend and confidential contracts with the football clubs Arsenal de Sarandí and Sarmiento de Junín, among other documents, they constitute new links between the AFA Treasurer and Pilar’s mansion valued at 17 million dollars.

It happens that the luxurious mansion was in the hands of the company Malte SRL and then Real Central linked today to Luciano Pantano and his mother – a retired domestic worker – after going through other companies related to Toviggino, according to the complaint by Elisa Carrió, Matías Yofe and Facundo del Gaiso whose jurisdiction they fight it the economic criminal judge Marcelo Aguinsky and the federal judge of Zárate-Campana, Gabriel Gonzalez Charvay. Yofe – the main complainant of the mansion with a helipad, 54 collector cars and show jumping horses – suffered a scandalous raid last Friday.

The leader of the Civic Coalition-ARI stated last week that Toviggino “He has a very close bond” with the former Minister of Economy and leader of the Renovador Front, Sergio Massa. Toviggino was a hired advisor to Massa while he was a deputy until June 2022 when he took over as head of the Treasury Palace and then was a presidential candidate for Unión por la Patria.

One of the measures that Aguinsky had requested, before the lawyers of Luciano Pantano – accused of being Toviggino’s alleged front man – objected to him was that the General Inspection of Justice (IGJ), which controls companies and non-profit associations such as the AFA, send him the accounting books of Malte and other firms linked to the strong man of Argentine football, behind Chiqui Tapia. The measure was suspended while the Federal Chamber of San Martín decides which judge continues investigating the mansion case.

However, now It was learned that Malte has a much greater role in the corporate framework of the strong man of Santiago del Estero football that was believed at the beginning: it is the “head” of the business group that paid fees, services, raised money and signed contracts.

In judicial sources Clarion it was stated that They found invoices in the name of María Florencia Sartirana – Toviggino’s girlfriend – for figures approximately one million pesos invoiced to Malte SRL with commercial headquarters at 861 Paraná Street, department B, CABA. The company was established in the province of Santiago del Estero in 2016 by Gabriel Leonardo Gorosito and Juan Carlos Figueroa and then changed directors and shareholders.

Malte is a limited liability company that served as the formal owner of the Villa Rosa mansion (Pilar) between June 2023 and May 2024. It had direct commercial links with the AFA and is corporately linked to SOMA SRL through Mauro Javier Paz himself, another of Toviggino’s trusted men. Sartirana served in the Argentine Football Association as Finance Manager until 2022, where she worked in the entity’s economic administration and was considered Toviggino’s right-hand woman.

The invoices, the sources told Clarionthey are for “fee” without further details. The company Wicca SAS was also invoiced to Malte SRL for the “development of the Malte Federal 2021/2023 program” for million-dollar figures.

But not only did it pay various expenses, but in 2021 made a loan of 10 million pesos to Club Atlético Sarmiento in the Buenos Aires town of Junín and the document is signed by the managing partner of Malte SRL, Carlos Bruno Seguel, another repeated figure in the companies that respond to Toviggino. Currently, Sarmiento plays in the first A category of the AFA.

But the most important football contract signed by Malte SRL es with Arsenal Fútbol Club de Sarandí in 2022 in national and international trials. And the club chaired by Julio Grondona’s son would have given him the federative rights of the professional soccer players Leonel Picco and Joaquín Pombo, within the framework of a confidential management agreement. However, Arsenal were relegated to first B.

Malte even intervened in a transactional agreement between Ernesto Duchini Fútbol Club and Arsenal. The settlement was a payment of 150 thousand dollars. A few months later, Arsenal authorized Juan Pablo Beacon, who is also a lawyer, to act in a claim before FIFA for the transfer of the player Alejandro Darío Gómez to Sevilla Fútbol Club, the bond reached that level.

The former president of Arsenal, Julio Grondona (h) told this newspaper that “with Malte it was just a management agreement. Then the pandemic came and everything was over and we were on good terms. They later went to other clubs, ours was very brief and normal.”

Paradoxically, Toviggino opposes the creation of private companies called Sports Joint Stock Companies (SAD) promoted by President Javier Milei.

Between 2021 and 2022, the tourism company Equitur fbilled trips to Fortaleza, Brazil, and a charter flight for almost 4 million pesos in Amazonas Airlinealways according to the sources and documents discovered. Just as construction companies also invoice services from Malte SRL.

According to sources and inquiries made, many other financial movements of Malte SRL They were managed by Juan Carlos Beacon, president of the Patagonian Football Federation and member of the Federal Council of the AFA directed by Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia. Beacon make up the “small” table of the AFA. Beacon is related to Norte Argentino SRL, Studio 23 SRL, Soma SRL and Wicca SAS. And according to football sources, he would have participated in a campaign against the leadership of Marcelo Tinelli and Matías Lammens during the time they ran San Lorenzo. But that’s another story.

Meanwhile, Justice is looking for documents and invoices about other companies that appear in the corporate mosaic that has Toviggino at the center:

● SOMA SRL as Malte SRL share a declared address on 1111 Posadas Street. A maneuver was also detected whereby, in documents and bank transfers, the address on 1111 Posadas Street is sometimes listed as belonging to the city of Santiago del Estero and other times as belonging to the City of Buenos Aires (Recoleta neighborhood). At the aforementioned address, there is an office complex, on the eighth floor of which is the company Netcargo, of which Mauro Javier Paz and Orlando Martín López, both trusted men in the Toviggino clan, appear as members.

● REAL CENTRAL S.R.L. (formerly called Central Park Drinks SRL): It is the company that currently owns the property of Villa Rosa and other associated luxury goods. It was established in 2021 and, through successive corporate changes, was made up of alleged front men. Real Central SRL has a declared domicile in CABA, according to recorded registry reports, although its operations have included the purchase of goods in Pilar. Proof of its insertion into the Buenos Aires business fabric is that in September 2024 it acquired two lots in the country “Ayres Plaza” in Pilar from Wicca SAS, an operation after which a two-story house was built that was not declared to the Buenos Aires prosecutor.

● WICCA S.A.S.: Simplified Joint Stock Company in the “spa, aesthetics and health” category. It is of special interest because its director until 2020 was María Florencia Sartirana. Juan Pablo Beacon, former Executive General Director of AFA and a leader very close to Toviggino, acts as substitute administrator. It forms, together with Vandap SAS and others, the Sartirana-Toviggino corporate universe. Wicca SAS registered its address in Capital Federal (according to its registration with IGJ) and, as indicated, was the previous owner of properties in Pilar that it later transferred to Real Central SRL. Unpaid expenses for said lots were even found in the name of Wicca, which evidenced its previous ownership and continuity in the administration of the property. These facts underline how Wicca, being a Buenos Aires company managed by those close to AFA, actively participated in the fraudulent maneuver of the mansion in the Province of Buenos Aires, reinforcing the centrality of CABA in the criminal organization.

● VANDAP S.A.S.: Polirrubro company established on January 30, 2020, whose name has emerged associated with this network due to initially picturesque but revealing facts. Sartirana (former AFA) participated in its creation, who later remained as the main shareholder and administrator. Vandap SAS declared its headquarters in CABA and has developed diverse businesses: it is the owner of the boutique winery “La Vigilia” in Tunuyán (Mendoza) and its line of wines “Neurus”, as well as commercial premises in this city (e.g. Café Martínez de Maipú 607, CABA). It also operates two beauty centers with a bar, in Nordelta and Recoleta.

● MENDOZA WINES S.A.: Public limited company identified in the course of the investigation (order to lift bank secrecy issued by VS on 12/26/2025). It is presumed that it may be related to the “La Vigilia” winery or to the marketing of high-end wines associated with Neurus. Although its name alludes to Mendoza, this firm has declared headquarters in the City of Buenos Aires, according to the data collected. Its inclusion in the evidentiary measures suggests that it has had financial movements linked to AFA or the accused, perhaps serving as a vehicle for investments in the warehouse or in assets whose origin is being investigated. It is necessary to delve deeper into its shareholding and operational composition, but its presence already confirms that the circuit of money investigated includes companies registered in CABA even when they operate ventures in other provinces.

● NEURUS SERVICES SA.: The existence of this public limited company allegedly dedicated to the commercial distribution of “Neurus” wines, produced by the La Vigilia winery, has been detected. Servicios Neurus SA was chaired by Mauro Javier Paz (another former AFA) and has been active in the sale of wines, both in Buenos Aires and abroad.

Federico Teijeiro collaborated