García Cabeza de Vaca case: the FGR is now investigating its accounts and tightening the circle

The governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco Cabeza de Vaca, is going through one of the most difficult times of his political career due to the accusations against him that they associate it with organized crime. For this reason, The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) has opened an investigation into both his close entourage and his bank accounts.

The government agency will investigate family, professional and friendly relations to determine if, during his political career, he had any links with the Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel. Research will mainly focus when he was mayor of Reynosa and this will also be used to know if he got funding from organized crime.

Security Cabinet sources said The day What inquiries about loved ones are part of US government investigation, which deals with the financial operations of family members and associates who may be related to the acquisition of real estate in the State of Texas.

As proof, the authorities could take into account a video that circulated on social networks in 2020. In this It is mentioned that the alleged delivery of resources from Los Zetas to García Cabeza de Vaca, It would have started in 2005 with Jaime González Durán, “El Hummer”.

The video was denied by Raúl Eduardo Monge Castillo, who headed the Municipal Drinking Water Commission (Comapa) of Tampico and was kidnapped and tortured for 20 days to force him to “confess” that the governor had received from the organized crime money. In the footage, you heard him say, according to Mexican media, that Cabeza de Vaca had prestanombres who ran businesses.

Among the people who have benefited from this alleged network are those close to the governor, that is why they would be investigated in Mexico.

After the FGR issued an arrest warrant for Francisco Cabeza de Vaca, the governor of Tamulipas accused that the government violates its presumption of innocence with “false charges ”.

In a statement posted on social media, the president stressed that the authorities are forgetting and ignoring the resolution by the State Congress and the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, institutions that have decided that the president continues to have jurisdiction.

He added that he had been denied access to the investigation, although he had requested it on different occasions. “They didn’t let me defend myself. Now they are violating the decision of a sovereign Congress and worse, they are ignoring a determination from the highest court in the land ”, he reads in the letter posted on the Internet.

Likewise, he accused that the order against him is a sign that the federal government is using justice to strike down its opponents. Furthermore, he assured that tAll of this also has electoral connotations, as it is carried out when “the electoral preference of the citizens is in sharp decline”.

After that, an immigration alert was issued on behalf of the governor by the National Migration Institute (INM) and the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) froze their accounts following the complaints.

According to the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic and the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, allegedly involved in triangulation of 42 million pesos with a suspicious company for the US government. The charges stem from a complaint filed in recent months by individuals regarding illicit enrichment relief of more than 951 million pesos.

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