Politics The Argentinean government, tarnished by a scandal of corruption and spying currently investigated in the United States, reacted on Thursday and vented that the main informer of the FBI in the trial was a criminal.

One year ago, Venezuelan-US businessman Guido Antonini Wilson took in Venezuela a plane chartered by an Argentinean state-owned company together with government officials of Argentina and Venezuela. On arriving in Buenos Aires, he was caught in possession of a suitcase filled with undeclared USD 800,000 in cash, Reuters reported.

According to the US prosecutor that filed the charges in Miami, the money was to sponsor the campaign of nowadays' President of Argentina Cristina Fernández.

Antonini Wilson was not held in Argentina because the crime was labeled as a customs-related offense and he returned to Miami. There, the businessman met with alleged agents of the Venezuelan government who promised him immunity provided that he would agree to cover up the source and destination of the money.