Argentina won the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. FIFA awarded the team €42 million in prize money. Now, investigators believe that money never made it where it was supposed to go.
Instead, the funds were allegedly routed through TourProdEnter LLC, a Florida-based company that had been quietly appointed as the Argentine Football Association’s exclusive international commercial agent just months before the tournament. The company was incorporated in August 2021 and signed to its role in December of that year, meaning the contractual pipeline was already in place before a single ball was kicked in Qatar.
The shell game
According to reporting by La Nación, the company processed approximately $260 million across accounts at major US banks including Bank of America and JPMorgan. At least $42 million of those funds were allegedly transferred to four inactive Florida shell companies. These entities reportedly had no staff, no verifiable business operations, and no obvious reason to be receiving eight-figure wire transfers from an organization as prominent as AFA.
Banking records reportedly show that $57 million in payments processed through these accounts lack clear justification.
