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'''Isaac Perez Guberek Ravinovicz''' was designated by U.S. Treasury under the [[Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act]] in July 2013. Treasury described him and his son [[Henry Guberek Grimberg]] as leaders of a Bogota-based network that laundered drug proceeds for trafficking organizations, naming [[Ayman Joumaa]] among its clients. The U.S. Attorney’s Office separately announced an indictment charging him in a drug-money-laundering conspiracy. Treasury later identified a Madrid-based cell operating under his direction. Those records establish sanctions, charges and attributed network roles; the cited releases do not establish a conviction.<ref name="r1" /><ref name="r2" /><ref name="r3" />

== Role in the network ==

Treasury said Guberek Ravinovicz and [[Henry Guberek Grimberg]] used apparently legitimate Colombian textile firms and shell-company accounts in Panama to move proceeds back to Colombia. It described several trafficking clients, including Joumaa and Jose Evaristo Linares Castillo. The release assigned leadership to the father and son jointly; it did not publish a transaction ledger showing which principal handled each named client’s funds.<ref name="r1" />

== Identity and company links ==

OFAC also listed the name Isaac Guberek Rabinovich. Its July 2013 entry linked him to companies including C.I. del Istmo, Induitex, Chaps Investment, Inversora Panacol, Orbital Horizons and G&G Internacional. These identifying links make the corporate network more specific, but the listing does not allocate individual transfers or profits among him, his relatives and those businesses.<ref name="r4" />

== Other named relationships ==

Treasury’s 2013 action covered 31 individuals and entities in all and described hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money across the wider network. It named Jose Evaristo Linares Castillo as another client alongside Joumaa, preventing attribution of the aggregate figure to Joumaa alone. The same release named Henry’s brothers Felipe and Arieh among designated relatives, but did not assign them a Joumaa transaction.<ref name="r1" />

== Legal record and attribution ==

DOJ announced a one-count indictment of Guberek Ravinovicz, Grimberg, [[Johanna Patricia Ceballos Bueno]] and Dilleman Hernando Solorzano-Lozano for conspiracy to launder proceeds of controlled-substance offenses. The announcement explicitly stated that an indictment was only an accusation and defendants were presumed innocent unless proved guilty. A sanctions designation and a criminal charge are separate legal events; this page does not infer an outcome from either.<ref name="r2" />

== Madrid collections and settlement ==

Treasury’s October 2013 account described cash collected by Calle Quiros and Rodriguez Badillo in Madrid being sent to accounts controlled by Guberek Ravinovicz and used to pay traffickers in Colombia. This is a more specific alleged direction-and-disbursement relationship than the general list of international transit jurisdictions. It still does not identify a particular Madrid collection as Joumaa’s or publish the underlying account reconciliation.<ref name="r3" />

== Later actions involving associates ==

OFAC removed Arieh Guberek Grimberg on 28 April 2015 and Felipe Guberek Grimberg on 29 September 2016. Rodriguez Badillo was removed in the latter action; Calle Quiros and four remaining Spanish-cell companies were removed on 14 June 2017. Those are outcomes for named associates and entities. They do not constitute a removal or criminal disposition for Isaac Perez Guberek Ravinovicz.<ref name="r5" /><ref name="r6" /><ref name="r7" />

== Related network and scope ==

An October 2013 Treasury action described [[Luis Santiago Calle Quiros]] and [[Maria Paloma Rodriguez Badillo]] as operating a Madrid cash-collection cell under Guberek Ravinovicz’s direction. Treasury said Joumaa used the wider [[Guberek money-laundering network|Guberek network]] and separately described Joumaa’s enterprise as having benefited [[Hezbollah]]. It did not state that Guberek Ravinovicz was a Hezbollah member or identify a Guberek-to-Hezbollah transfer.<ref name="r1" /><ref name="r3" />

== Related Peruvian finding ==

El Colombiano subsequently reported that a July 2018 Peruvian prosecutorial determination found insufficient evidence to support suspicion of drug-proceeds laundering involving Calle Quiros and no indications of a profit-generating predicate crime. That reported finding qualifies the account of the Madrid associate. It should not be presented as a decision on the separate United States indictment naming Isaac, Henry, Ceballos Bueno and Dilleman Hernando Solorzano-Lozano.<ref name="r8" /><ref name="r2" />

== Financial mechanism and individual scope ==

Noam Binstok, Orna Mizrahi and Esteban Klor’s May 2026 INSS analysis describes trade, exchange businesses and hawala offsets as complementary means of financial settlement. It provides context for the alleged relationship between accounts controlled by Guberek Ravinovicz and payouts to Colombian traffickers. The model does not identify an additional personal transfer, establish knowledge of a specific payment’s criminal source, or quantify a receipt by [[Hezbollah]].<ref name="r9" />

== See also ==
* [[Hezbollah Business Affairs Component]]
* [[Lebanese Canadian Bank]]

== References ==
<references>
<ref name="r1">[https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jl2002 Treasury, Guberek network designation, 9 July 2013]</ref>
<ref name="r2">[https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2013/07/09/colombian-nationals-charged-international-drug-money-laundering Colombian Nationals Charged In International Drug Money Laundering Conspiracy]</ref>
<ref name="r3">[https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jl2193 Treasury, Spanish cell designation, 29 October 2013]</ref>
<ref name="r4">[https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20130709 OFAC,Kingpin Act Designations,9July2013]</ref>
<ref name="r5">[https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20150428 OFAC, Counter Terrorism Designations; Counter Narcotics Designations Removals, 28 April 2015]</ref>
<ref name="r6">[https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20160929 OFAC, Kingpin Act Designations; Counter Narcotics Designations Removals, 29 September 2016]</ref>
<ref name="r7">[https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20170614 OFAC, Counter Narcotics Designations Removals and Updates, 14 June 2017]</ref>
<ref name="r8">[https://www.elcolombiano.com/historico/estados-unidos-sanciono-a-cinco-empresas-por-lavado-de-dinero-a-narco-colombiano-BYEC_267336 El Colombiano, 29 October 2013 article with later update on July 2018 Peruvian determination]</ref>
<ref name="r9">[https://www.inss.org.il/publication/hezbollah-finance/ Hezbollah’s Global Financial Network as a Target in the War Against the Organization]</ref>
</references>

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