Official defends hiding $64,000

Argentina’s economy minister said she committed no crime by hiding $64,000 in cash stuffed in a bag in her office bathroom.

Police conducting a routine security check found the cash in a bathroom cabinet in Felisa Miceli’s offices at the Economy Ministry, and a federal investigator is probing the source.

“It was a blunder but I committed no crime,” Miceli said, explaining that she borrowed most of the cash from her brother to buy a house. She said she took the money to her office for safekeeping on June 4 and did not get around to putting it in a safe-deposit box before police discovered it late last month.