The appeals prosecutor asked the Supreme Court to rule on who should investigate the Pilar mansion case.

The dispute over who should investigate the "Pilar mansion" case could reach all the way to the Supreme Court. The prosecutor general before the Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber, Mario Villar, filed a complaint appeal before the highest court so that it can analyze who should keep the case file. The filing also requests that the decision placing the case in the hands of the Campana federal court, headed by Adrián González Charvay, be overturned. This request is the last avenue remaining for the Public Prosecutor's Office in this dispute. On October 6, Chamber I of the Cassation Court, made up of Alejandro Slokar, Diego Barroetaveña and Mariano Borinsky, declared Villar's extraordinary appeal inadmissible. That is why the matter now seeks to escalate to the Supreme Court, through a brief that speaks of alleged "suspicions in public opinion." The core of the argument is that the Cassation Court sent the case to Campana on the grounds that money laundering is a federal crime, but without analyzing where the events under investigation would have occurred. The hypothesis is that they took place in the City of Buenos Aires, not in Campana. "Accepting the assertion that the crime of money laundering falls under the jurisdiction of the federal courts, as if this phrase had some magical content implying that territorial jurisdiction need not be observed, is untenable," the prosecutor wrote. And he added: "The Cassation Chamber is setting aside the procedural law, cited by both parties, regarding territorial jurisdiction, and did not care." Prosecutor Mario VillarNicolás SuárezIn turn, Villar pointed to a group of case files. "The cases underway against AFA officials and people close to them are not limited to the present proceedings, but rather comprise a web of cases, most of which are subject to recusal requests by the Campana federal judge," he maintained. He listed the investigation into the "Pilar mansion" and the case file originating from the Santiago del Estero courts for alleged fraud within the AFA. For that reason, the prosecutor referred to a possible "forum shopping," in reference to the "accumulation of cases" before a judge who, he believes, should not be in charge of the files. This case concerns who owns the Pilar estate, which belonged to Carlos Tevez. Its significance lies in the fact that the judge who investigates this case will take over all the cases of alleged money laundering and fraud linked to the AFA, involving Claudio "Chiqui" Tapia and the treasurer, Pablo Toviggino. The organization has always denied the accusations against it. Bag found at the Pilar MansionThe original complaint is dated December 1, 2025, and was filed by Elisa Carrió, Juan Facundo Del Gaiso and Matías Yofe, members of the Civic Coalition. The complainants alleged money laundering against those who appear as owners of the five-hectare Pilar estate, which had soccer fields, a stud farm, Arabian horses, a heliport, a gym, houses, a barbecue area with grill, and a shed with 54 high-end vehicles, including some collector's classics and the latest sports models. They suspect they are fronts for someone else. The estate, which the courts estimated to be worth 25 million dollars with the cars included, belongs on paper to Real Central SRL, a company run by Luciano Pantano, a former futsal official, and his mother, Ana Conte, a retiree. When the estate was raided, objects bearing Pablo Toviggino's name were found inside, such as a bag and a plaque. By Ignacio Grimaldi