Jorge Antonio (October 14, 1917 – February 11, 2007) was an Argentine business man and political figure, a close adviser to President Juan Domingo Perón.

It was reported that his fortune grew in the ten years to 1955 to US$215 million,[4] and to opponents, Antonio's wealth became emblematic of the cronyism Perón encouraged during his presidency.

Despite animosity from Perón's wife, Isabel, and the couple's chief of staff and fortune-teller, José López Rega, Antonio was a prominent adviser and financier of the exiled populist leader.

In August 1944, important German industrialists, led by the director of Hermsdorf-Schomburg-Isolatoren-GmbH, Johann Friedrich Scheid[11][12][2], planned at the Maison Rouge hotel in Strasbourg how they could hide their fortunes through Swiss channels.

[13][14][15] According to Gaby Weber's research, Juan Antonio was invited to Stuttgart in April 1950 by Daimler CEO Wilhelm Haspel to start the establishment of a new branch in Argentina with the help of funds that had been hidden before 1945.

According to Weber, the legal basis for money laundering was the German-Argentine trade agreement negotiated with Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard in July 1950.

In the following years, Jorge Antonio also received large sums from other German industrial companies, such as Thyssen, Mannesmann, Klöckner, Korff, Siemens, Schering and Bayer.