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A Venezuelan television news network owner has been charged by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida for his role in a $1.2 billion scheme to launder funds. The indictment was unsealed after evidence was presented in the Florida courthouse showing that the laundered funds were allegedly corruptly obtained from Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA). It was later presented that the defendant, Raul Gorrin Belisario (Gorrin), would “clean” these ill-gotten gains in exchange for hundreds of millions in bribe payments to V…

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