Maria Paloma Rodriguez Badillo
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 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.[1][2][3]
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.[1]
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.[4][1]
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.[1]
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.[1][2]
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.[3][5][6]
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.[7]
Related network and scope
Treasury named Joumaa as one of the wider 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.[1][2]
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 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.[8][1]
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.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Treasury, Spanish cell designation, 29 October 2013
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Treasury, Guberek network designation, 9 July 2013
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 OFAC, Kingpin Act Designations; Counter Narcotics Designations Removals, 29 September 2016
- ↑ OFAC, Kingpin Act Designations, 29 October 2013
- ↑ OFAC, Counter Narcotics Designations Removals and Updates, 14 June 2017
- ↑ OFAC, Counter Terrorism Designations; Counter Narcotics Designations Removals, 28 April 2015
- ↑ El Colombiano, 29 October 2013 article with later update on July 2018 Peruvian determination
- ↑ Beyond Covergence: World Without Order
- ↑ Hezbollah’s Global Financial Network as a Target in the War Against the Organization
Legal and sanctions status as of 25 September 2026.