The president of Globovisión and Seguros La Vitalicia was accused of money laundering following a 2019 report by Spanish police, but the judge ruled there was insufficient evidence against him. Photo: Social Media.
Guacamaya, June 20, 2025. A Spanish court has dismissed the investigation against Venezuelan businessman Raúl Gorrín, finding insufficient evidence to support accusations of alleged money laundering related to PDVSA.
Judge María Tardón of Spain’s Audiencia Nacional stated in a ruling accessed by Guacamaya that “it has not been corroborated, beyond the alleged suspicions of being faced with operations suggestive of money laundering […] that the actions attributed to the accused could originate from the illicit proceeds of any criminal activity.”
Gorrín was initially charged in 2019 when Spain’s National Police linked him to the operation of a credit line granted by a Venezuelan company, Rantor Capital, to state-owned PDVSA. The collection rights were transferred in 2014 to Eaton Global Services, a company controlled by Gorrín.
The 2019 report claimed that the Venezuelan businessman had been “the recipient of $600 million received from the oil company as part of the alleged credit line, which was reportedly justified to financial institutions with fake contracts, as well as through the activities of two other individuals investigated in this case: José Vicente Amparan Croquer and Hugo André Ramalho Gois.”
In his defense, Gorrín presented a 2020 ruling from a Caracas court in which the Venezuelan Public Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the criminal case in Venezuela related to the same credit line and ordered the repayment of the loans.
The Spanish prosecution opposed this, requesting verification of the resolution’s authenticity and further information on the criminal proceedings against Gorrín in Venezuela. However, the judge rejected the request, stating that the document had been “properly certified and legalized with the Apostille of the Hague Convention.”
Gorrín is a Venezuelan businessman and lawyer, president of the media outlet Globovisión and Seguros La Vitalicia. He also faces other charges in the U.S. Southern District Court of Florida for money laundering and conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. However, he has not yet been convicted in any case.
