Former AFIP tax bureau chief, Ricardo Echegaray, and former Federal Planning Minister, Julio De Vido, along with half a dozen other defendants, will stand trial on March 8 for the suitcase containing almost US$800.000 smuggled into Argentina by Venezuelan businessman, Guido Antonini wilson, in 2007, after a court on February 8th knocked back Echegaray’s request for the case to be dismissed on the grounds of the statute of limitations. The case revolves around the dollar-laden suitcase coming directly from late Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez, for the illegal funding of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s eventually successful presidential campaign.
SOURCE: www.batimes.com.ar