The head of the Administrative Investigations Attorney’s Office (PIA), Sergio Rodríguez, requested the investigation of the head of the Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA, formerly AFIP), Andres Vazquezafter concluding that he hid it from the Anti-Corruption Office (OA) and the fiscal body that he himself leads who is the owner and final beneficiary of three properties worth more than US$2.1 million in the United States.
Prosecutor Rodríguez considered that Vázquez should be investigated – and prosecuted – for the crime of Malicious omission to record data in the sworn declaration of assetsa figure that provides for up to 2 years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office, and required federal prosecutor Guillermo Marijuán to expand the investigation to the alleged crimes of tax evasion, money laundering and illicit enrichment.
“Without a doubt, Andrés Edgardo Vázquez incurred the crime of omission to insert data in the sworn asset declaration.“, stated the head of the PIA, “because maliciously obvious insert the real link that he had with the companies that register assets abroad, properties that he and his family use.”
The request for an investigation against Vázquez must be resolved by the federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi and thus joins other judicial investigations underway on Government officials in the Comodoro Py courts. They have as accused President Javier Milei and his sister Karina in the “$LIBRA case”, the current Chief of Staff, Manuel Adorni, the former personal lawyer of the Head of State, Diego Spagnuolo, for the alleged payment of bribes and surcharges in the National Disability Agency (Andis), or the authorities of Banco Nación for the delivery of mortgage loans to officials.
Appointed to head the General Tax Directorate (DGI), in October 2024, and promoted to the leadership of ARCA, in December 2025, by President Javier Milei, Vázquez has been facing criminal questions and investigations for years. Among others, for his connection with the Buenos Aires floating casino, for protecting the Kirchner marriage already companies of Lazaro Baez and Christopher Lopezfor a mega-operation against Clarín group and for operating US$416,000 in a Curaçao bank account through a BNP Paribas cave in Buenos Aires.
In that sense, the judicial investigation against Vázquez began after a journalistic investigation that THE NATION and the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP) published in December 2024, with the support of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ, in English). During the first months it was in the hands of federal judge Daniel Rafecas and federal prosecutor Carlos Rívolo, but then it passed to judge Martínez de Giorgi and the prosecutor Guillermo Marijuanwho requested to obtain additional information from the British Virgin Islands through a judicial warrant.
Marijuán advances the investigation into Vázquez with the support of two specialized prosecutors’ offices: the Office of the Attorney General for Economic Crime and Money Laundering (PROCELAC), led by the prosecutor. Diego Velascoand the PIA, under the command of prosecutor Rodríguez, who in his 54-page opinion stated that it was proven that Vázquez did not declare three properties in Miami valued at more than US$2 million before the Anti-Corruption Office or ARCA.
These three properties, as verified by Rodríguez, are units 3504 and 2811 of the Icon Brickell complex, acquired in January 2013 for US$710,000 and US$400,000 respectively through the Panamanian company Alcorta Corp., and suite 904 of the Chateau Beach Residences condominium, in Sunny Isles, purchased in July 2015 for US$980,000 through through Pompeya Group Corp. Both Panamanian firms were, since 2016, under the control of Galanthus Capital Limiteda company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands where Vázquez appears as the final beneficiary, according to the internal forms of the Trident Trust study, which classified him as Politically Exposed Person (PEP).
For the head of the PIA, “there is plenty of evidence which assume that the accused Andrés Edgardo Vázquez incurred the crime” of malicious omission, supported by the sworn statements that Vázquez presented to the OA and the AFIP between 2011 and 2015, and in 2023. In none of them does he refer to offshore companies or properties in Miami. Nor did he declare Galanthus Capital Limited, despite appearing as the sole director and final beneficiary.
Rodríguez verified that the official and his ex-wife Silvia Ivone Rodríguez —also an ARCA employee— They paid municipal taxes in Miami County for those properties for a total of US$ 136,761 between 2014 and 2018, and that tax refunds were even recorded sent in the name of Vázquez himself and his ex-wife, and that his daughters have resided there since 2022according to themselves, they registered their real address with the Argentine National Registry of Persons.
For the PIA, these elements—tax payments, use of property by your family, and domicile records—allow you to infer the “animus domini”that is, the effective control of assets beyond their formal ownership.
Heir to the National Prosecutor’s Office for Administrative Investigations, the PIA asked to expand the investigation into the assets of Vázquez, his ex-wife, his daughters María Eva and María del Milagro, and his sister Silvia Monica Vazquezpointing to two hypotheses. The first, that of illicit enrichment, after detecting a equity disproportion between declared income and acquisitions made. An example? Vázquez declared that he had about US$40,000 in liquid assets at the end of 2012 and US$44,000 at the end of 2013, but he purchased real estate for US$1.1 million in January 2013 and for another US$980,000 in July 2015.
Added to this disproportion is a declarative contradictionIn his sworn income tax returns before ARCA, Vázquez acknowledged having received fourth category income from the United States for $28.7 million in 2023 and $99.4 million in 2024, amounts declared in pesos before the Argentine treasury. I mean, yes declared in Argentina the flows it received from abroad, but not the assets that generated them.
To this first hypothesis, prosecutor Rodríguez added that of money laundering. After reviewing the use of shell companies, self-loans, successive purchases and sales of real estate and the undervaluation of deedsdetailed the purchase in December 2018 of a 318-square-meter triplex on 1124 Juana Manso Street in Puerto Madero —located in the Los Molinos Building, a Faena Properties venture— through the firm Acontec SRL for a deeded value of $8,720,000, equivalent to just US$ 225,906 at the then exchange rate, much lower than the market rate, estimated by the PIA in about US$ 2.1 million based on the survey of the Real Estate Report site.
The PIA documented the undervaluation with Zonaprop publications rescued from the web archive: in February and November 2018, units of the same building measuring between 96 and 98 square meters were offered between US$460,000 and US$500,000. Vázquez paid the equivalent of US$709 for each of the 318 square meters of the triplex. The operation would have generated a loss of between US$235,000 and US$551,000 for the seller Acontec SRLwhich had acquired the property three years earlier for $7,332,000.
Along the same path, the PIA detailed how Vázquez used another signature, Consulting San Andrés SAwith characteristics typical of a screen societyaccording to the opinion. Because? Because it is a company without employees, domiciled in a property owned by Vázquez himself —who receives a locative fee from it—, which would have granted the official a “loan” to buy 50% of the Chateau de Puerto Madero apartment in 2010 and who appears as the controller of five cars. Among them, a armored BMW X6 in July 2015 that the official and his entourage use, and about which the PIA asked the ANMaC (former RENAR) for information on the holding credential, the armoring company and the registered users.
He corporate circuit It closes with other information provided by the PIA. Between 2024 and 2025, Consultora San Andrés SA disposed of its vehicles. The Ford EcoSport was left in the name of Vázquez himself; the Volkswagen Vento, in the name of his ex-partner Silvia Ivone Rodríguez; and the Mini Cooper John Cooper Works was acquired, in September 2025, by Oscar Mario Abaloshareholder of Acontec SRLthe same company that seven years earlier had sold Vázquez the allegedly undervalued apartment in Puerto Madero.
Prosecutor Rodríguez even alludes to a possible performance simulation already one deliberate patrimonial confusionlinked to the billing issued by Consultora San Andrés SA in favor of Casino Buenos Aires SA already Loddin SAtwo companies where Vázquez, in turn, would have intervened as an official of the former AFIP in 2007. And he even detected that both “carried out income tax withholdings in those years, which implies that the company (Consultora San Andrés SA) provided services to him.”
To deepen the investigation, finally, the PIA asked Judge Martínez de Giorgi to issue international letters to the Bank of Americato the PNC Bank and to Wells Fargowhere Vázquez and his family group would have accounts, and that the request for information from the judicial authorities of the British Virgin Islands. He also requested information from the United States Embassy about the migratory movements of Vázquezhis ex-wife and their two daughters in North American territory since 2012.
