Argentine VP Targeted for Illegal Enrichment Probe The legal battles of Argentine Vice President Amado Boudou grew more complicated on Monday when a federal prosecutor asked a judge to open an illegal enrichment probe. Also named were Boudou's girlfriend Agustina Kampfer, his longtime friend and business partner Jose Maria Nunez Carmona, and another businessman, Alejandro Vandenbroele, who allegedly served as Boudou's proxy in a series of business deals. Prosecutor Jorge Di Lello also asked judge Ariel Lijo to investigate 10 businesses, including The Old Fund, a holding company reportedly linked to Boudou. The Old Fund was able to bring a struggling printing company out of bankruptcy and win a contract to print Argentina's currency with the help of Boudou and other top government officials. Lijo must now decide whether to formally open the illegal enrichment probe and eventually whether to bring charges that could result in as much as six years in prison and a lifetime ban from public office, Di Lello's secretary, Juliana Marquez, told The Associated Press. "The prosecutor has found sufficient elements to justify investigating the vice president," Marquez said. The judge now needs to initiate the investigation ... examining the declared wealth of the functionary and the others named, along with the sworn declarations of the companies, in search of any incongruencies. FILE - In this April 25, 2012 file photo, Argentina's Vice President and Senate President Amado Boudou attends the debate of an oil nationalization bill, proposed by Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, at Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An Argentine prosecutor asked on May 14, 2012 for a federal judge to open an illegal enrichment probe against Boudou. In Argentina, taxpayers must formally declare not only their declared income, but also their total wealth. The government then compares the totals along with declarations from the money's sources, and can bring tax evasion charges when the totals don't match. Boudou already faces potential charges of influence-trafficking and other acts incompatible with public office, in a case Judge Lijo inherited from Judge Daniel Rafecas. Rafecas agreed to open that probe, and Argentina's attorney general, Esteban Righi, approved that judge's request for a raid on Boudou's apartment that turned up telephone records linking Boudou and Vandenbroele, whom the vice president has denied knowing personally. Boudou then formally complained that all three officials managing the influence-trafficking probe - Rafecas, Righi and federal prosecutor Carlos Rivolo - had been conspiring against him and improperly leaking information to Argentina's opposition media. Rafecas was separated from the case, Righi resigned under pressure, and now Judge Lijo must decide whether to separate Rivolo as well. Sergio Berensztein, director of the independent Poliarquia consulting firm in Buenos Aires, said the government's recent takeover of the YPF oil company had diverted attention from the Boudou case, but the new action pulls it back into public view. He said it also raises questions about what President Cristina Fernandez knew and when. Some of the allegations involve actions Boudou allegedly took starting when he was a mid-level government official. She later promoted him to be her economy minister and then chose him to be her vice president in her second term. "The question is whether Cristina knew about all this," Berensztein said. If not, if it was an intelligence failure involving people around her, and she knew about that, than the president is complicit.