In the crosshairs: FGR to investigate operators of Enrique Peña Nieto, Ricardo Anaya and Luis Videgaray

After another complaint was made by the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) against Emilio Lozoya, the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) revealed the closing of the fence to other collaborators in this six-year term led by Enrique Peña Nieto.

This is the case with the investigations of various complaints against the operators of Luis Videgaray Caso, former secretary of finance and foreign relations, as well as PAN member Ricardo Anaya, according to data provided by the newspaper Millennium.

Journalist José Antonio Belmont assured that he is Roberto Padilla Dominguez, technical secretary of the cabinet, and José Antero Rodarte Cordero, Head of the Presidency Support Unit.

In addition, other names also emerge in the surveys of the FGR such as Allvaro Rivera, collaborator at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, as well as Osiris Hernández Peña, Ricardo Anaya’s private secretary when he was a federal deputy.

Finally it appears Rogelio Gasca Neri, advisor to Pemex during the approval of the energy reform, and secretary of programming and budget with Carlos Salinas de Gortari, without forgetting that he held the positions of undersecretary of infrastructure of the Ministry of Communications and Transport , Under-Secretary for Finance and Public Credit, Director General of Aeroméxico, as well as Director General of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).

This July 18, 2021, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), attached to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) revealed that it had filed the sixth complaint against Emilio Lozoya, former director of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), as well as against 11 other natural persons and 33 legal persons.

Lawsuits were filed for the crimes of political corruption and misappropriation of public resources was allegedly carried out while the former official was director of the oil agency under the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto.

The FIU would have identified the money laundering scheme between 2012 and 2016. In this context, and through the 34 companies linked to Odebrecht, contracts for millionaire sums of money would have been awarded, which were integrated into 3 operating levels to favor civil servants Mexicans and maybe fund political campaigns.

The agency revealed that in a first group of operations, “companies have been the beneficiaries of public resources disbursed by PEMEX and government agencies in an unjustified manner, noting that they are directly linked to ODEBRECHT, ”said the press release, which specifies that this was done through various corporate, financial and / or commercial links.

For the second group of operations, companies received resources from the first group to process them later and stratify them into a resource triangulation scheme “for later send them to companies with front characteristics responsible for blurring the traces of illicit assets ”.

Finally, they ensure that the dispersion of resources has been withdrawn massively in cash where electoral elections such as Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Mexico.

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