Florida company tied to FBI probe of Argentine soccer finances

Federal prosecutors in South Florida were examining more than $300 million in Argentine soccer transactions that moved through a Florida company, putting a Miami-area business at the center of a cross-border money trail tied to the Argentine Football Association. Investigators in Washington, D.C., and Miami are involved, but no charges had been announced.

TourProdEnter LLC, incorporated in Florida in August 2021, became the AFA’s exclusive commercial agent outside Argentina four months later. The contract, signed on Dec. 9, 2021 by AFA president Claudio Tapia and executive secretary Pablo Toviggino, authorized TourProdEnter to collect sponsorship and sponsorship-related revenue and handle logistics. In return, the company was to receive 30% of the AFA’s foreign commercial income and 10% of logistics-related outlays tied to the contracts it handled.

At least $260 million moved through four U.S. bank accounts at TourProdEnter, and at least $42 million went onward to four Florida companies with no employees or verifiable business activity. The transfers later topped $50 million. The money trail also included a Houston company, Global FC LLC, which collected $5.8 million from AFA-related commercial partners and then sent $6 million back to TourProdEnter and marketing firms.

The inquiry began in 2025 and involved federal prosecutors in Washington and the Southern District of Florida. Investigators interviewed Argentine sports businessman Guillermo Tofoni and were also weighing testimony from former officials connected to Javier Milei’s government. Investigators examined whether the flow of funds amounted to money laundering, wire fraud, bank fraud or tax evasion under U.S. law.

The AFA defended its relationship with TourProdEnter and denounced the coverage as a campaign of defamation. In January, TourProdEnter was the AFA’s largest commercial debtor, owing about 13.296 billion Argentine pesos, or roughly $14.5 million at the exchange rate then in effect. Another transfer sent $109.9 million to an AFA brokerage account in the British Virgin Islands.