Foreign media: South American football club suspected of laundering money through transfers

Reference News Network reported on June 28, according to Latin American News Agency on June 22, football not only always touches the hearts of South American people, but also is a major economic engine in the local area. However, South American football is currently at the center of the storm. Recently, a huge network of corruption and money laundering has been exposed, and its scope has extended from Paraguay to Argentina.

According to Argentina media reports, a corruption investigation pointed to the president of the Paraguay Football Association, Robert Harrison, who was accused of laundering money by transferring players to an Argentine club.

In fact, this increasingly fierce scandal is threatening the purity of the region's most popular sport. At the heart of the case, the Harrison family is accused of leading a network that uses football clubs to transfer funds, falsely report player transfer fees and evade taxes.

Harrison was accused of using his position to build a "solid and solid business network", but the network's role is far from promoting Paraguay football's development, but instead is used for illegal purposes.

Argentina has become the core hub of the organization's operations. Some historic clubs such as the Argentina Newells Old Boys, Sarandi Arsenal and Tigers are all used for money laundering and player transfer operations.

Shockingly, the fact that Newells Old Boys Club is described as a key money laundering center with direct links to drug trafficking gangs has raised concerns about national security in all walks of life.

Investigators pointed out that players are inflated during the fraudulent transfer process so that the organization can make hidden profits in offshore accounts, and the players will be briefly registered with the Paraguay club to evade taxes, but the ultimate destination is Argentina.

This leads to millions of dollars in transactions not being declared, which directly affects Argentina's national tax revenue and ultimately leads to large-scale tax evasion. (Translated by Liu Lifei)