Agent Venezuela received in the U.S. four years in prison.

Miami court sentenced the Venezuelan businessman Franklin Durán (Franklin Duran) to four years in prison, admitting his illegal Venezuelan agent in the United States. The Court emphasized that the work of Durand was not directed against the United States and does not impair the security of the country, reports BBC News.
Duran was convicted of violating U.S. law on registration of foreign agents. According to him, the citizens and companies involved in advocacy and lobbying in the interests of foreign organizations, necessarily must be registered in a special department of the Ministry of Justice of the United States.
According to the prosecutor, the defendant arrived in Miami in order to put pressure on American origin Venezuelan businessman Guido Antonina Wilson in order to disguise the origin of the money that Wilson was carrying in the received international resonance "women's suitcase affairs." Then in August 2007 in Argentina for customs inspection in the suitcase were found Wilson 800 thousand dollars. The scandal began when the press spilled rumors that this money had been sent to the Government of Venezuela, and according to some person, Hugo Chavez, the election campaign, Fernandez Kirchner, who won the presidential elections in Argentina in October 2007.
After the start of the investigation were not charged Wilson, but he testified against Duran, who also took part in operations to deliver the money. In addition, one of the accomplices arrested Duran agreed to a deal with the investigation and also gave evidence against him in exchange for a commutation of sentence. At trial, the prosecution claimed that Duran was acting on special assignment and, in fact, a Venezuelan agent. And although it is not directly related to the interests of America, he violated the law, so as not been registered as a foreign agent. Held in the case of two other citizens of Venezuela and a Uruguayan citizen were convicted earlier. They also confirmed that their actions had Venezuelan intelligence.
After the outbreak of the scandal the authorities of Venezuela and Argentina, have denied all charges. Hugo Chavez has called the proceedings "dirty deeds" and U.S. attempts to divide the relationship between Venezuela and Argentina. However, the Argentine judicial authorities in December 2008 declared that beginning an investigation in respect of contracts concluded between the two countries with the previous President Nestor Kirchner, who is the husband Fernández Kirchner. Then, as prosecutors allege, in the exchange of Venezuelan oil for Argentine goods disappeared without trace tens of millions of dollars.