Venezuelan Man Was Chavez Government Agent, U.S. Says
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MIAMI — A Venezuelan businessman acted as an unregistered foreign agent last year while trying to cover up an election scandal that exploded into a Latin American imbroglio, an American prosecutor said yesterday in opening remarks at his trial.
Franklin Duran, 40, is accused of acting for President Chavez’s Venezuelan government in trying to convince a Miami businessman to hide the source and destination of $800,000 the man toted in a suitcase seized at an airport in Argentina. The cash was intended to support the campaign of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who was elected Argentina’s president October 28, a prosecutor told jurors yesterday in federal court in Miami.
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