Venezuela To Investigate
Man For Anti-Government
Plot
Venezuelan lawmakers
will investigate a man
who carried a
cash-filled suitcase and
was suspected of
involving in an
anti-government plot,
local press reported
Thursday.
The Venezuelan-American
businessman, charged
with money laundering,
reportedly carried a
suitcase filled with
some 800,000U.S. dollars
from Caracas to Buenos
Aires last August.
The Venezuelan and
Argentine authorities
have denied connection
with the suspect.
U.S. investigators have
wired the suspect with a
recording device to
collect evidence against
alleged Venezuelan
agents accused of
pressuring him to reveal
the money's source.
Four men have been
arrested in Miami on
charges of acting as
unregistered foreign
government agents.
According to Theresa Van
Vliet, prosecutor of the
suspect, lawmakers will
investigate whether the
man involved in a 2002
coup against President
Hugo Chavez. The source
of the funds that the
suspect was given
remains unclear, Vliet
said.
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