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'''Maria Paloma Rodriguez Badillo''' was designated by U.S. Treasury under the [[Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act]] in October 2013. Treasury identified her and [[Luis Santiago Calle Quiros]] as longtime associates of [[Isaac Perez Guberek Ravinovicz]] who collected proceeds from narcotics sales at offices in Madrid and moved money to Guberek-controlled accounts for payments to traffickers in Colombia. The [[Guberek money-laundering network|Guberek network]] had served [[Ayman Joumaa]] among other clients, but the release did not identify a Rodriguez Badillo payment to [[Hezbollah]] or assign the Madrid cash to a particular Joumaa transaction. OFAC removed Rodriguez Badillo on 29 September 2016.<ref name="r1" /><ref name="r2" /><ref name="r3" />

== Role in the network ==

Treasury described Rodriguez Badillo and Calle Quiros as a Spain-based cell operating under Guberek Ravinovicz’s direction. It said they collected drug-sale cash in Madrid and routed value to Colombia through accounts controlled by Guberek Ravinovicz. The statement is an agency description of the cell; it does not publish the account ledger or assign every collected sum to one trafficking client.<ref name="r1" />

== Named companies and ownership distinction ==

The five companies designated in October 2013 were Textimax Spain and Castizal Madrilena in Madrid, and Cartronic Group Peru, Inmobiliaria Castizal and Ucalsa Peru in Lima. Treasury attributed ownership or control to Calle Quiros. Rodriguez Badillo’s stated role was participation in the Madrid collections with him. Marriage, joint designation and shared alleged activity do not establish that she held each corporate position or owned each company.<ref name="r4" /><ref name="r1" />

== Other named relationships ==

Treasury identified Rodriguez Badillo as Spanish and her spouse Calle Quiros as a Spanish-Peruvian dual national. The release attributed control of the five designated companies to Calle Quiros; her stated operational role was collecting Madrid narcotics proceeds with him and routing them into Guberek-controlled accounts.<ref name="r1" />

== Legal record and attribution ==

The October 2013 action designated the couple and five related companies in Spain and Peru. Treasury stated that the companies were owned or controlled by Calle Quiros. It did not describe Rodriguez Badillo as the owner of all five, nor did it report a criminal conviction against her. Her designation is an administrative sanctions action with its own legal meaning.<ref name="r1" /><ref name="r2" />

== Removal from the sanctions list ==

OFAC removed Rodriguez Badillo on 29 September 2016. Calle Quiros and four of the companies were removed later, on 14 June 2017; Cartronic Group Peru had been removed on 28 April 2015. The notices do not provide reasons for each individual removal. Her delisting is therefore a documented administrative outcome, distinct from a criminal acquittal or a finding about the destination of every collection.<ref name="r3" /><ref name="r5" /><ref name="r6" />

== The reported outcome concerning her spouse ==

El Colombiano later reported a July 2018 Peruvian prosecutorial determination finding insufficient evidence to support suspicion of drug-proceeds laundering involving Calle Quiros, and no indications of a profit-generating predicate offense. The report names her spouse. It should not be converted into a separately established criminal outcome for Rodriguez Badillo, although it qualifies the history of the jointly described Madrid operation.<ref name="r7" />

== Related network and scope ==

Treasury named Joumaa as one of the wider [[Guberek money-laundering network|Guberek network]]’s clients in its July action. It also described Joumaa’s broader enterprises as benefiting groups such as [[Hezbollah]]. Rodriguez Badillo is directly linked to the Madrid cell and Guberek; the available sources do not trace a specific payment from her to Joumaa or Hezbollah. Those separate edges should not be collapsed into individual membership or financing claims.<ref name="r1" /><ref name="r2" />

== Interpretation of the Madrid collections ==

Levitt’s Beyond Convergence chapter describes the Madrid cell as collecting proceeds that included Joumaa’s. Treasury’s October announcement described Joumaa’s business with the wider [[Guberek money-laundering network|Guberek network]] without identifying a specific Madrid payment as his. The stronger secondary interpretation remains attributed. It does not provide a transaction ledger establishing an individual payment from Rodriguez Badillo to [[Hezbollah]].<ref name="r8" /><ref name="r1" />

== 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 distinction between the Madrid collections attributed to the couple and subsequent financial settlement. 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/jl2193 Treasury, Spanish cell designation, 29 October 2013]</ref>
<ref name="r2">[https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jl2002 Treasury, Guberek network designation, 9 July 2013]</ref>
<ref name="r3">[https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20160929 OFAC, Kingpin Act Designations; Counter Narcotics Designations Removals, 29 September 2016]</ref>
<ref name="r4">[https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20131029 OFAC, Kingpin Act Designations, 29 October 2013]</ref>
<ref name="r5">[https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20170614 OFAC, Counter Narcotics Designations Removals and Updates, 14 June 2017]</ref>
<ref name="r6">[https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20150428 OFAC, Counter Terrorism Designations; Counter Narcotics Designations Removals, 28 April 2015]</ref>
<ref name="r7">[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="r8">[https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5-PURL-gpo76875/pdf/GOVPUB-D5-PURL-gpo76875.pdf Beyond Covergence: World Without Order]</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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