A Venezuelan media mogul who U.S. authorities have charged with money laundering offloaded a Fisher Island condominium in a deal that stemmed from a legal filing in an anti-terrorism case.
Planet 2 Reaching, a company tied to Venezuelan TV magnate Raúl Gorrín, parted with the 9,800-square-foot condo, unit 7043 at Palazzo Del Sol at 7043 Fisher Island Drive for $18.4 million or about $1,900 per square foot.
The buyer was 7043 Fisher Island LLC, whose manager is Brandon Shiller, founding partner of Montreal-based real estate investor and developer Hillpark Capital. The buyer also owns three condos at Miami Beach’s Five Park, at 500 Alton Road, mortgage records show.
Shiller did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mocca Realty’s Alex Pirez represented the seller and Mocca’s Diana Gutierrez brought the buyer. Pirez, founder of Mocca Group, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
The Fisher Island condo has been on and off the market since 2017, about a year after the Gorrin-tied company purchased the newly built unit for $15.5 million. The condo’s asking price in 2017 was $17.9 million, according to the listing. Planet 2 Reaching most recently listed the seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom pad about a year ago for $30 million, or almost $3,200 per square foot, then slashed the price in October to $22.8 million.
The sale stemmed from a 2024 judgment in an anti-terrorism lawsuit. Antonio Caballero filed the case in Florida Southern District Court in 2018 against FARC, the National Liberation Army and the Norte de Valle Cartel, claiming the groups kidnapped, tortured and killed his father, a former United Nations ambassador who was critical of the drug trade.
In 2022, Caballero asked the court to find Gorrin an “agency or instrumentality” of the defendants and sought to seize the Fisher Island unit and other property. U.S. authorities in 2018 charged Gorrín, the billionaire owner of Venezuela’s news channel Globovision, with bribing Venezuelan officials with millions of dollars and luxury property in order to access Venezuela’s special fixed-currency exchange rate. He later was charged with taking part in a billion-dollar money laundering scheme connected to Venezuela’s state-owned energy company.
Gorrin, who remains a fugitive, challenged Caballero’s claims, a move which led a judge to block the sale of the unit and another condo on Collins Avenue in Sunny Isles Beach. Caballero appealed, but dropped the appeal after both units were sold and Caballero received $6 million. Another $11.7 million went to the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets, according to court records.
The condominium association at Palazzo Del Sol also filed a foreclosure lawsuit against Planet 2 Reaching in 2022, seeking payment on a $581,000 lien for unpaid assessments. A foreclosure sale had been set for April but was canceled, court records show.
Among other recent Fisher Island sales, Moto Capital boss Guilherme Federico sold a condo in April to a trust managed by developer and food entrepreneur Joseph P. Faro for $21 million. Film producer John Davis, whose credits include the “Predator” films, paid $16.2 million for a unit in May.
