María del Luján Telpuk

Lorena Telpuk, formerly María del Luján Telpuk (sometimes María de Luján Telpuk) or the Suitcase Girl (born ), is a former airport police officer at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is best known for noticing a suitcase with US$800,000 as it went through an X-ray machine in August 2007, initiating a very public international election scandal, known as Maletinazo.

When the suitcase scandal became public, Telpuk became an international celebrity, appearing on the cover of several magazines, including those of the February 2008 issue of the Argentine edition of Playboy magazine and the March 2008 issue of the Venezuelan edition of Playboy magazine.

In 2008, she changed her name to Lorena Telpuk, had breast augmentation surgery, and continued to pose for adult modeling photographs and derive income from her notoriety. She became involved in larger political struggles between the US government and leftist Latin American leaders, receiving death threats requiring police protection, and testifying in court regarding her involvement in the case.

Telpuk's mother Yolanda lives in a middle-class suburb of Buenos Aires. she discovered the money that became part of a political scandal in the electoral campaign of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the President of Argentina. It was in the possession of a Key Biscayne, Florida resident Guido Antonini Wilson, who was referred to in the press as both Antonini, and Wilson, or sometimes by the nicknames "El Gordo" or "The Fat Man". Wilson is an interpreter, part of a delegation of executives that traveled to Argentina to prepare for the signing of an energy deal offered by Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela. and Telpuk is known as the Suitcase Girl in her homeland, Argentina.

For her part, Telpuk felt she was caught in the "middle of a rivalry of nations". In 2008, according to foreign language sources, she changed her name from María del Luján Telpuk to Lorena Telpuk; she was mysteriously dismissed from Skating for a Dream; and she posed for additional adult modeling photographs in Premium, an Argentine magazine. Her October 3 testimony, wherein she contradicted the testimony of Antonini, in which he had stated that he was carrying the suitcase as a courtesy to his companions, was considered a highlight of the trial. On that day, her presence prompted a media frenzy. For her part, Telpuk took the stand to testify that she had been offered political asylum by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as well as employment in the United States in exchange for modifying her witness statement that Mr. Antonini Wilson was the owner of the suitcase that contained the $800,000. On November 3, 2008, part of the case was decided in a Miami courtroom when Franklin Durán, a wealthy businessman who allegedly conspired to cover up both the origin and the destination of the suitcase, was convicted of acting as an "unregistered agent" of Venezuela on American soil.