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  • Venezuelan government denies link to cash-filled suitcase scandal

    08/10/2007 10:36:12 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 1,273+ views
    ap on San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 8/10/07 | Fabiol Sanchez - ap
    CARACAS, Venezuela – The Venezuelan government on Friday denied any link to a businessman who was stopped at an Argentine airport carrying a suitcase filled with nearly $800,000 in cash. The Venezuelan businessman, Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, carried the money from Caracas to Buenos Aires on a flight chartered by the Argentine government, and the undeclared funds were seized by customs agents last weekend. “We don't have anything to do with that plane or with that trip ... nothing to do with that businessman,” Venezuelan Finance Minister Rodrigo Cabezas told reporters. The incident has shaken the Argentine government, prompted one...