Madam, - On Monday, Argentina's finance minister, Felisa Miceli, resigned after a prosecutor requested her to be summoned to testify as a suspect in a probe relating to a sum equivalent to $64,000 that was found, during a routine security check, in a bathroom inside her offices. The former minister claims that the money, which was in a mixture of Argentinian pesos, US dollars and euro, was intended to be used by her to purchase a house, in a deal that later fell through, and that most of the money had been lent to her by her brother. In the past it was fairly common for property deals in Argentina to be transacted in cash.
The federal prosecutor said there was enough evidence to suspect that by merely possessing the money Miceli covered up a previous financial deal of dubious legitimacy.
It could never happen in Ireland. Not the resignation part, anyway. - Yours, etc,
MACDARA MacCATHMHAOIL,
San Miguel de Tucuman,
Argentina.