The 800 thousand dollars, which were part of the scandal known as ‘valijagate’ and they were carried by Guido Antonini, in a private plane from Venezuela, are still in the National Bank, waiting for someone to withdraw them.

Antonini was arrested at Aeroparque with the suitcase, and did not know what to say about their fate, nor on the amount transferred, then ended up fleeing to the United States.

At that time, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, was in full presidential campaign, and everything was to relate the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, who sent the ’suitcase’ to help the campaign.

Since then the justice did not advance in the investigation, but journalist Hugo Alconada Mon, from Buenos Aires daily, La Nacion, which was a correspondent in Washington, who now completes the publishing of the book ‘Suitcase Secrets ‘: where you can read testimonials and information discovered by the reporter.

Alconada had the 188 recordings of the FBI, which Antonini ended up exchanging for a better deal for collaboration, as well as unpublished documents, telephone calls, bank deposits and air traffic documents.

Because his research was to determine ‘the existence of an unknown campaign, organized in 2006 by the Government of Venezuela with the intention of achieving Latin American seat that  would be free in the Security Council of the UN, and accounted for 24 trips around the world made by officials and Venezuelan businessmen.

With residence in Florida, Franklin Durán and Carlos Kauffmann, are added as responsible for the flight of the suitcase Venezuela / Buenos Aires “.
Alconada says that there was another bag, but in this case $ 4 million and was not intercepted.

The day of the presentation of his book, an incident occurred: the theft of his briefcase replacing it with another similar, except that it was empty.

The incident occurred when he was signing his books, at the time of the robbery, a man with a foreign accent tried to take him to a particular place in the room for a photo.

The journalist said that “it contained important documents and that the theft occurred while he was attending an insistent ‘fan’” and “not the first time they try to rob me or threaten me.”