Owner of Venezuelan channel Globovisión accused of millionaire bribery in the USCC BY-SA
The Venezuelan tycoon owner of the Globovisión news network, Raúl Gorrín Belisario, was indicted before the Court of the Southern District of Florida for his alleged participation in a currency exchange and money laundering scheme of more than 1,000 million of dollars in bribes, informed the Department of Justice.
“Raúl Gorrín Belisario (Gorrín), a 50-year-old Venezuelan citizen residing in Miami, Florida, was charged in an indictment filed on August 16, 2017 before the Southern District of Florida with a charge of conspiracy to violate the Corrupt Practices Act. Foreigners, one charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering and nine money laundering charges, “the statement said.
Allegations of guilt by Venezuelan bankers Alejandro Andrade, 54, of Wellington, Florida, and Gabriel Arturo Jiménez Aray, 50, of Chicago (northeast), on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering were also disclosed.
The indictment assures that Gorrín paid millions of dollars in bribes to two Venezuelan officials, including Andrade, who was a Venezuelan Treasury official, to carry out foreign exchange transactions at favorable rates for the Venezuelan government, the statement said.
Gorrín also made purchases and paid expenses of the two bankers to travel on private flights and yachts, acquire homes, racehorses, luxury watches and branded clothes, says the US Department of Justice.
To hide the illegal payments, the owner of Globovisión made the disbursements through multiple fictitious companies, and partnered with Jiménez to acquire Banco Peravia in the Dominican Republic in order to wash the bribes given to Venezuelan officials, according to the statement from the Department of Justice.
