Saturday, August 2, 2008

Venezuela seeks arrest man caught with suitcase stuffed with $800,000 in cash

Caracas Daily Journal:
Venezuelan authorities are seeking the detention of a dual Venezuelan-US citizen caught in Argentina with a suitcase stuffed with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.

The Venezuelan Public Ministry said that a court has asked local and international police agencies to capture the businessman.

Argentine airport customs officials confiscated nearly $800,000 from Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson last August when he arrived from Caracas along with functionaries from PDVSA and Enarsa.

Antonini is in the United States and cooperating with authorities there. U.S. prosecutors have accused three Venezuelans and an Uruguayan of acting as illegal agents and pressuring Antonini not to disclose the money's origin.



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