Henry Guberek Grimberg
Henry Guberek Grimberg was designated by U.S. Treasury in July 2013 alongside his father Isaac Perez Guberek Ravinovicz. Treasury identified them as leaders of a Bogota-based network that laundered narcotics proceeds for multiple trafficking organizations, including Ayman Joumaa’s. The U.S. Attorney’s Office separately announced an indictment charging Grimberg with conspiracy to launder drug proceeds. The public releases establish the allegation and designation, not a conviction or an individual Hezbollah affiliation.[1][2][3]
Role in the network
Treasury attributed leadership of the network to Grimberg and his father and described their use of Colombian textile-company accounts and Panama shell-company accounts in trade-based laundering. The agency named Joumaa and Linares Castillo as clients of the network. This identifies a shared organizational role but does not allocate each transaction to Grimberg individually or show that a particular client’s money passed through a particular account.[1]
Identity and company links
Treasury described Henry as a dual Colombian and Israeli national. OFAC’s July 2013 entry also used the spelling Henry Guberex Grimberg and listed links to C.I. del Istmo, Induitex, I&S Holding Company, Orbital Horizons, Impan-Col and T.F.M.C. The Food Management Corporation, among other companies. These identity and corporate-link details do not establish where he personally handled a particular client payment or what he knew about its ultimate destination.[1][4]
Other named relationships
Treasury designated Henry’s brothers Felipe and Arieh among family members said to support the principals’ laundering activities or help manage their companies. It described Felipe as a businessman then living in Israel and Arieh as a licensed soccer agent; those occupations were identifying details, not allegations that either brother handled Joumaa’s funds. Treasury placed Johanna Patricia Ceballos Bueno in day-to-day management in Bogota and the textile and Panama account channels under the father-and-son leadership, without assigning each movement to Henry personally.[1]
Legal record and attribution
DOJ’s July 2013 press release named Grimberg among four defendants in a one-count drug-money-laundering conspiracy indictment. Its statement that an indictment is only an accusation applies to his case. The source provided here does not report a trial, plea or sentence; the page therefore gives no inferred criminal disposition.[2]
The separate criminal accusation
The four defendants named by DEA were Henry, Isaac Perez Guberek Ravinovicz, Johanna Patricia Ceballos-Bueno and Dilleman Hernando Solorzano-Lozano. The announced charge was conspiracy to launder proceeds from controlled-substance offenses. Its scope differs from Treasury’s wider designation of thirty-one individuals and entities. The charge was not an announced conviction of the family or every company associated with it.[2][1]
Later actions involving relatives
OFAC removed Arieh Guberek Grimberg on 28 April 2015 and Felipe Guberek Grimberg on 29 September 2016. The latter notice also removed Guberek Grimberg e Hijos y Cia., Constructora Nacional de Panama and Avanti Joyeros. These dated changes qualify the earlier family and company listings. They do not supply a delisting or criminal outcome for Henry, and the notices do not explain each individual removal.[5][6]
Related network and scope
Treasury described Joumaa’s wider narcotics enterprises as benefiting groups such as Hezbollah. Grimberg’s documented edge is leadership in a laundering network used by Joumaa, among others. The 2013 Treasury and DOJ releases do not designate Grimberg as a Hezbollah financier or trace a payment from him to the organization. The client relationship and wider benefit assertion remain separate.[1][3]
Interpretation of the client relationship
Matthew Levitt’s Beyond Convergence chapter treats the Guberek network’s services to Joumaa as an example of commercial relationships crossing ideological and communal boundaries. That interpretation explains a possible reason for cooperation between distinct networks. It does not turn Henry’s nationality or family relationships into evidence of Hezbollah membership or establish an individual payment by him to the organization.[7]
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 textile-company and overseas-account arrangements under the father-and-son leadership. The model does not identify an additional personal transfer, establish knowledge of a specific payment’s criminal source, or quantify a receipt by Hezbollah.[8]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Treasury, Guberek network designation, 9 July 2013
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Colombian Nationals Charged In International Drug Money Laundering Conspiracy
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Treasury, Spanish cell designation, 29 October 2013
- ↑ OFAC,Kingpin Act Designations,9July2013
- ↑ OFAC, Counter Terrorism Designations; Counter Narcotics Designations Removals, 28 April 2015
- ↑ OFAC, Kingpin Act Designations; Counter Narcotics Designations Removals, 29 September 2016
- ↑ 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 26 September 2026.