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This guy isn't related to Louisiana's Chilly Billy Jefferson is he? :-)

The incident has shaken the Argentine government, prompted one Argentine official to resign and led Venezuelan authorities to launch investigations. Officials so far have given no explanation as to why Antonini Wilson had the cash or what sort of business he is in.
Corporate records in the United States list Alejandro Antonini, apparently the same man, as an executive of the Florida-based companies Techmilk, Venuz Supply, Global Ads and Foxdelta Investments.
Antonini Wilson owns a three-bedroom condominium in Key Biscayne that has a market value of about $1 million, according to Miami-Dade County records. Venezuelan public records show he is registered to vote at the Venezuelan consulate in Miami.
------ "Argentina wants to arrest Venezuelan businessman," BY OSCAR SERRAT, Associated Press via http://www.miamiherald.com/519/story/203639.html

Techmilk?

What a name...

Throughout 2003 Antonini increased his portfolio with the creation of Global Ads Corp in Florida, and the founding, with Wladimir Abad ( a Venezuelan pilot who this week told Miami's Union Radio 1210 that he registered corporations but wasn't active in their management) of Techmilk in August of that year. ( from Buenos Aires News: Wladimir Abad, owns Abad Air, which has made frequent flights between Venezuela, Miami, and the Turks and Caicos, a Caribbean money laundering haven. Abad, like Antonini, seems to be fascinated with the ease of starting a US company and has set up at least a dozen, none of which seem to have an address or employees...Antonini Wilson is part of a group of 35 - 45 year-old "businessmen" who have gotten rich under Chavez, and all hang out together.
One of them is Ricardo Fernandez Barruecos, owner of American Food Grains; Wladimir Abad is the company secretary. One of AFG's planes was detained by the US DEA May 17 of this year. There are several members of the group, all rolling in dough, and all connected to PDVSA and Chavez. Abad, a big Chavista, drove around Caracas during the run-up to the recall campaign with a big red "NO!" sticker on his brand-new Ferrari, indicating his support for Chavez *) "He seems like a totally legit businessman to me.I'm in shock", Abad said, referring to Antonini in an interview with journalist Julio César Camacho.
-------- via "A Mule For Brother Hugo," Tuesday, August 21, 2007 , see Little Venice, Microvenice.blogspot.com