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raul gorrin
Raul Gorrin must have lost it. It is kind of impossible to make sense of the following thread, posted by Gorrin in his Twitter account a few hours ago:
Guten Tag, the unroll you asked for: Quiero alertar que con pruebas falsas los EEUU pretenden, una vez más… https://t.co/1FRsDrhABm Talk to you soon. 🤖
U.S. Treasury sanctioned Raul Gorrin and his network today. Has-beens like Gonzalez Dellan and Claudia Diaz Guillen (pending extradition to the U.S. from Spain) have also been targeted. Gorrin, particularly, is a great addition to the SDN list, as he has become the Boligarch-in-favour to the Maduro/Flores power couple in many of their corrupt deals. Globovision, Gorrin's propaganda network, is also included in SDN List.
There's more to Raul Gorrin. The U.S. Department of Justice (bless them) has just scratched the surface. On Tuesday, December 1, 2009, Gorrin sent an email with -among others- the following instruction:
Monto 3.850.000
HSBC PRIVATE BANK (SWITZERLAND) SA 2, General Guisan CH1211 Geneve swift: BLICCHGG
Attention: Angelo Mazzarella Beneficiary Bellsite Overseas S.A Account no. 1574680
So the Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Raul Gorrin last night with money laundering. Readers of this site sort of knew that was coming. Alejandro Andrade, Claudia Diaz Guillen and Adrian Velazquez (both pending extradition to Venezuela from Spain), are co-conspirators, along Gabriel Arturo Jimenez Aray from Banco Peravia in the DR.