[SDFL] On July 9, 2013, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the designation of Colombian nationals Isaac Perez Guberek Ravinovicz and his son, Henry Guberek Grimberg, as well as 29 other individuals and entities, including companies located in Colombia, Panama, and Israel, as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs). These 31 individuals and entities together form a money laundering network responsible for laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money connected to drug trafficking organizations, including Ayman Saied Joumaa and Linares Castillo who were both previously designated by the Treasury Department. Separately, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida and the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Miami Field Division announced the filing of criminal charges against four of the designated defendants, including Isaac Perez Guberek Ravinovicz, Henry Guberek Grimberg, and Johanna Patricia Ceballos-Bueno, all Colombian nationals, for their participation in an international money laundering conspiracy in which they laundered millions of dollars for transnational drug trafficking organizations. See also: US v. Joumaa; and US v. Lebanese Canadian Bank sal, et al.
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