Through the right-hand man of the President of the AFA Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia and treasurer of the Association, Pablo Toviggino ; and the Patagonian representative on the Council of the sports entity, Juan Pablo Beacon ; the political power of Rio Negro seems to have operated as a private consultancy that served to circumvent the Land Law and Border Security.

Everything was set off by the confession of polo player Hugo Barabucci; a statement that Today, it threatens to sink the ship of Alberto Weretilneck 's political structure. As revealed in recent hours by La Política Online , the $2 million "donation" from the United Arab Emirates to purchase 20,000 hectares on the border is not an isolated event, but rather part of an offshore business architecture designed to control strategic territories in Patagonia.

The Emirs' "Facilitator"

LPO's investigation focuses on chats between Pablo Toviggino (Chiqui Tapia's right-hand man at the AFA) and Juan Pablo Beacon (former president of the Patagonian Football Federation). In these conversations, it appears clear that Weretilneck was the one who facilitated institutional ties with the Qatari Ambassador, acting as a direct link for investments that extend beyond sports.

This "corridor diplomacy" explains why key agencies of the Rio Negro State —the State Prosecutor's Office, the Land Directorate and the Property Registry— looked the other way while Barabucci (an employee of a polo club in Abu Dhabi) registered glaciers, river sources and protected areas in his name.

The axis of dispossession: Mindlin, Lewis and Van Ditmar

The land traceability is obscene. Barabucci bought the 20,000 hectares from Marcelo Mindlin (Pampa Energía), a direct partner of the British businessman Joe Lewis . The same players are involved:

This network demonstrates that in Río Negro there is a single holding company for dispossession where the flags change (United Kingdom, Qatar or Emirates), but the local managers are the same.

Sovereignty for $106

The technical data is appalling: the strategic lands of Cerro Carreras were sold for an average of $106 per hectare . The money flew from Abu Dhabi to New York without leaving a single cent in the Argentine financial system . Meanwhile, the Río Negro police were used as the province's repressive apparatus to persecute the Mapuche community of Lof Cayunao, accusing them of "usurping" the territory that the State itself recognized as theirs in 2006.

This isn't negligence; it's a plan . Weretilneck 's silence in the face of Barabucci 's confession confirms the systematic omission . While the governor negotiates the privatization of Cerro Catedral with the Emir of Qatar , the national border is becoming a private bunker for foreigners.

There is no doubt that federal justice should intervene in what appears to be a textbook case of money laundering, tax evasion, and violation of national security . Patagonia cannot be a political slush fund . Even less so, a refuge for the British or the oil dynasties of the Persian Gulf.