AFA Agent TourProdEnter Spent $40.4M on Air Transport, Bought Gulfstream G400, Paid Alleged Shell Firms

TourProdEnter, one of the ten international collection agents of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), spent US$40,389,329 on payments linked to air transport. In some of those operations four "ghost" companies were used, and those firms received about US$11 million of the total. The figures come from a Discovery (evidence report) obtained in US courts by businessman Guillermo Tofoni.

The expenses range from commercial airline payments and executive flight charters to the purchase, maintenance and servicing of at least one aircraft, plus transfers to aviation-linked shell companies. Since 2021, TourProdEnter paid for several of the 19 trips abroad made by AFA president Claudio "Chiqui" Tapia. The payments were made by TourProdEnter LLC, which AFA hired to collect its revenue worldwide from December 2021 to December 2030 and which belongs to Erica Gillette, wife of Faroni, a former theater producer and former provincial deputy for the Frente Renovador.

Clarín reconstructed the spending from payment orders, invoices and transfers, most of it on private aircraft. Tapia declared 280 days outside the country between 2024 and 2025.

PLS Logistic LLC tops the list with payments so far totaling US$13,572,006. It describes itself as specialized in exporting vegetable and animal agro-industrial oils, yet it operated the aircraft TourProdEnter LLC bought with AFA money: a Gulfstream G400 (model GLF4), registration T7-SUE, registered in the tax haven of San Marino, used almost exclusively by Tapia and also by Pablo Toviggino.

Alas del Fin del Mundo SRL, an Argentine private-flight company linked to Tierra del Fuego businessman Nazareno "Cacho" Natale, billed AFA US$1,289,000, or 57.63% of the total spent on these flights. Gestair Aviation (Gestair SA) received at least US$372,669; Privé Jets LLC, a charter broker, at least US$225,960; Emerald Aviation Inc. US$157,970; Exclusive Charter Service Inc. US$125,730; GoJet247 US$55,900; and Air Charter Travel Limited US$9,632.

The Discovery also shows payments to companies that exist only on paper or have another corporate purpose, with no website, social media, employees or verifiable clients, and absent from any aviation database. CatAir LLC collected at least US$4,088,000, but no corporate records of an aviation company by that name were found. Tankat LLC received at least US$3,315,000 and declared offices in Delaware.

Clarín previously published a survey of 72 trips abroad by Toviggino from 2017 to November 2025, 53 of them on private aircraft, covering a longer period than since 2021.

Between January 2021 and April 2022 there were eight legs on a Learjet 60. In 2022 the treasurer flew to the Qatar World Cup on a Gulfstream G450 operated by Alas del Fin del Mundo. On June 24, 2024 he flew to São Paulo on a Learjet of Listra 200, a company linked to Faroni.

Sector sources quoted in the coverage describe two possible explanations for the paper-only firms: they are vehicles created to subcontract others, possibly with overpricing, or they collected for services not rendered. Either way, the pattern illustrates how charter spending can pass through several layers of brokers and operators before reaching an actual aircraft operator, which makes the true cost of a flight difficult to benchmark.

For the charter and brokerage segment, the exposure is reputational as much as legal. Operators and brokers named in a payment trail face scrutiny regardless of whether they flew the trips, and aircraft held through foreign registries and unrelated corporate operators draw attention to who actually controls and operates the airframe.

The evidence so far is a court-obtained Discovery and press reconstruction, and the sector sources' explanations are not established findings. The next milestones are any further filings in the US proceedings and any response from AFA, TourProdEnter or the companies named.