Firms central to FBI’s investigation of Argentina soccer fraud bought condos in Miami-Dade
Unusual financial transactions of the Argentine soccer association’s revenues through South Florida firms from late 2021 through 2025 have drawn the scrutiny of the FBI.
The South Florida couple who played a central role in the transactions purchased at least four properties in Sunny Isles and Aventura collectively worth around $11 million during that period, according to a Miami Herald review of banking records and publicly available business and property documents.
TourProdEnter, a firm the couple incorporated in 2021, had served as the Argentina Football Association’s commercial agent and received hundreds of millions of dollars from international brand and sponsorship deals.
The Herald had previously reported how roughly $40 million of the AFA’s international revenues had passed through TourProdEnter to other Miami-Dade firms — likely shell companies — without any clear business justification.
Federal investigators and prosecutors are looking at whether the mysterious fund transfers ultimately went to top AFA leaders like president Claudio Tapia and treasurer Pablo Toviggino for their personal use, the Herald has learned.
The ownership records of all four properties note limited liability companies as their purchasers. Those firms in turn list the Sunny Isles couple, Javier Faroni and Erica Gillette, as executives.
But neither Florida nor U.S. federal business laws require ownership information to be made public, meaning who ultimately owns the properties is unclear. All of the purchases were likely made in cash — the Herald found no record of mortgages or loans recorded with Miami-Dade County.
The Herald sent a series of questions about the purchases to Gillette, Faroni and their attorneys but did not receive any response.
The Herald had previously detailed how millions of the soccer body’s revenues were spent by TourProdEnter on charters of luxury jets and yachts, motorsport firms and a company that provides services for thoroughbred horses.
The transactions the Herald has reviewed are likely not exhaustive and offer only a glimpse into the complex financial movements of AFA funds that, besides the FBI probe, is also the subject of at least one criminal proceeding in Argentina.
The AFA has not answered the Herald’s repeated requests for comment. The soccer body has not publicly addressed any of the allegations.
Luxury properties
Four days before Faroni and Gillette incorporated TourProdEnter on Aug. 24, 2021, they established Rentaltourenter, LLC. In late March the next year, that company purchased a commercial space for $880,000 that served for a while as TourProdEnter’s offices at the Aventura ParkSquare business center.
But while the suite has not been sold, TourProdEnter moved out this spring, the Herald found.
Last week when a Herald reporter visited the site, he discovered that a different company specializing in private wealth management started leasing the office space last month. The Herald found no connection between the wealth management company and Faroni and Gillette.
In July 2023, Gillette incorporated another firm, Xilux Corp. in Florida. Four months later, on Nov. 15, the firm purchased a $3.3 million residential condo at the Acqualina Residents in Sunny Isles Beach.
Two weeks later, TourProdEnter, a Herald review of banking records found, sent $30,000 to Xilux and roughly $26,000 to Florida Secured Title, a title company it used for the purchase. TourProdEnter sent $70,000 more to Xilux in the first quarter of 2024.
Over the span of two weeks in mid-June 2024, TourProdEnter sent four wires totaling $6.9 million to Florida Secured Title. During that same period, Gillette incorporated another firm — Xulix II, Corp.
The next month, Xulix II employed the services of Florida Secured Title and paid $6.9 million for an oceanfront condo in a building adjacent to Acqualina Residents.
Again in July, 2025, TourProdEnter paid nearly $31,000 to Florida Secured Title and Gillette incorporated a firm named Only Five One, LLC. Only Five One then purchased a $570,000 residential condo in Sunny Isles on Sept. 3, 2025 — roughly two weeks after Gillette was replaced by her daughter on the firm’s company records. Florida Secured Title again appears on the deed records.
The title company did not answer the Herald’s questions and requests for comment.
Miami Herald staff writers Jay Weaver and Antonio Delgado contributed to this report.
