Bank documents prove that Maduro's figurehead hid $ 5.6 billion worth of corruption in Switzerland

Accused of money laundering, conspiracy and corruption by the United States, Raúl Gorrín, president of the television channel Globovisión and financial partner of Chavismo, is again in the honor publication of some documents proving multi-million dollar transfers in Switzerland. Published by El Confidencial, the evidence reveals that Gorrín transferred between 2011 and 2013 at least $ 5,600 million of public funds to Venezuela.

He and his partner Gustavo Perdomo were the last recipients of 10 accounts at EFG Bank in Zurich and the Helvetic Banking Company (HBC) in Geneva, where hundreds of millions of transfers were received and ordered.

The Spanish newspaper claims to have had access exclusively to police investigations, intercepted communications, a multitude of bank movements in financial institutions based in several countries, interviews with network figures and judgments and judicial charges. in various jurisdictions.

"Gorrín is the trademark man of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores", denounced the former Attorney General of Venezuela, Luisa Ortega. The same who was part of the kidney of Chavismo and now, exiled, became a provider of evidence inside the regime's corruption.

Until the end of 2013, Gorrin replied to Diosdado Cabello, number two of the PSUV and one of the strongest men in the country. However, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, "understood the potential of the entrepreneur, they put a red carpet on the purchase of Globovisión, they began to protect him in favor of his interests and to the Away from Cabello ", says journalist Marcos García Rey. Since then, Gorrín and Perdomo have become prominent men of the presidential couple with whom they have "designed and developed plots of embezzlement and the payment of multi-million dollar bribes to senior citizens. officials. "

Venezuelan intelligence sources and military officials told the newspaper that the fraud was estimated at $ 250,000 million. Héctor Navarro, head of four Chavismo ministries between 1999 and 2014, and Jorge Giordani, former minister of the economy, denounced in front of the National Assembly and in the media the looting of Venezuelan public funds amounts to more than 300 000 million dollars.

In fact the US Treasury has included the figurehead of the chavista on his blacklist. Y US justice investigates him for allegedly washing between 2008 and 2017 more than 159 million dollars of corruption in the oil country, intended for the purchase of properties in Florida and New York. With this money, they would have acquired real estate, yachts, racehorses and luxury watches. While waiting for the lawsuit, US justice has confiscated twenty or so luxury properties in the United States related to Gorrin.

Ortega, now repentant, confessed The confidential that, although she herself investigated many cases of corruption and misappropriation of public capital by top officials of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, the cases never ended in anything: "The criminals always end up in to be acquitted "

Gorrín's ties with Chavismo began in the corridors of Venezuelan courts. A lawyer by profession, this young man from a modest family had learned to move among the Chavists, forging contacts of power.

According to his website, "the successful businessman" has a wealth difficult to calculate: it uses a multitude of front companies registered in tax havens and has accounts in countries where banking secrecy is in force.

The Spanish newspaper found evidence of four companies created in 2009 in Panama. In the accounts of these companies, revenues and payments were triangulated with more than 20 banks from 13 different countries: Spain (Banco Santander and Caixa Geral), Switzerland, United States, Canada, Panama, Bahamas, United Arab Emirates or Singapore.

"The account registers in possession of this newspaper show the recipients' pbadion for living well.Many payments are made, which represent several million dollars for the acquisition of jets and private yachts." Miami Interglobal Yacht Company is one of the big beneficiaries For the pleasure of sailing between Gorrín, Perdomo and its subordinates, the company Unique Jet Aviation receives millions of dollars for the sale of its planes, all of which are paid with amounts embezzled from public funds Venezuelans, "reports El Confidencial.

The average details that pFor its plot of illegal enrichment, six Venezuelan companies with accounts in seven banks and five Panamanian companies with accounts in Swiss banks were used.

The bank papers obtained by El Confidencial and the testimony of a financial expert who participated in the operations reveal that between 2011 and 2012 alone, the two partners bought British treasury bills with Venezuelan public funds. amounting to $ 3,918 million. However, when they were sold and converted to the official bolivar, they remained at US $ 2 110 million. As a result, the profit obtained in the meantime amounts to $ 1,808 million.

Gorrín still lives in Venezuela, wants to leave but it will not be easy. No matter how much money you have accumulated, you know too much. The regime is afraid that I speak, that I say everything. "They watch him for everything he knows, they put him an electronic bracelet, so that the secret services know his position at all times"says El Confidencial.

This is how the chavist corruption mechanism was created.

Everything would have been born in 2002, during a secret meeting at the Miraflores Palace. That day, according to the Spanish newspaper, were Hugo Chávez, then president, Carlos Aguilera, then head of military intelligence, Luis Marín, energy entrepreneur and former president of the subsidiary of PDVSA, and Rafael Ramírez, at the time. All-powerful minister of popular power of oil and mines.

Still according to The Confidential, Ramirez reportedly proposed to reap some of the profits from the international sale of crude oil to finance the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and generate savings in foreign currency through the purchase of national bonds like the United Kingdom..

"At one point in the meeting, Chávez was surprised by the plan devised by Ramírez and his trusted man, Luis Marín, and demanded that they bring him a coffee to recover." Soon, Carlos Aguilera fled this If the president was then aware of these networks of institutionalized corruption, this newspaper can not say, but its execution is a reality until recently, in full knowledge of Nicolás Maduro and its network of customers. of public funds has resulted in the enrichment of a group of officials and senior officials of Chavismo, to whom this article is attributed, "writes Marcos García Rey.Raúl Gorrín.