President-elect Donald Trump used a congratulatory call with the president of Argentina to pursue a business interest, according to a new report.

But a spokesman for the Argentinian president called the accusation “absolutely untrue.”

The report from the Argentinian daily La Nacion claims that Trump asked Argentine President Mauricio Macri to help with a permitting issue that a project of his has run into, according to “Talking Points Memo.”

“This still hasn’t emerged but Trump asked for them to authorize a building he’s constructing in Buenos Aires, it wasn’t just a geopolitical chat,” a journalist quoted in La Nacion states.

It is not known what project Trump was pursuing and whether Macri agreed to help.

“They didn’t talk about the tower at all,” a spokesman for Macri told a reporter. “It’s absolutely untrue.”

The two spoke by phone on Nov. 14.

Macri, the son of one of the richest men in Argentina, ended 12 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s third-largest economy when he took office last December. He had publicly expressed his preference for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.

Macri, 57, met Trump decades earlier while working for his father, Francisco Macri.

According to a book by the elder Macri, his son beat Trump in a golf game during a complicated real estate deal in New York in the 1980s, and Trump broke his clubs after the game in frustration.

Francisco Macri sold his stake in the Lincoln West housing and office development in New York to Trump in 1985.

During their 15-minute phone call, the Argentine leader told Trump he hoped to see him in Buenos Aires for the G20 meeting in 2018, according to a statement from the president’s office, Reuters reported.

Trump responded that he hoped Macri would come to the White House before that, and promised Argentina and the US would have “the closest relationship in history,” the statement said.

The La Nacion report angered Trump’s critics who want a separation between his business practices and his new role as president-elect.

“Unbelievably brazen act of political corruption. Congress should immediately pass ethics laws to address this,” said Tommy Vietor, a former spokesman for President Obama.