Scandals for luxury homes abroad who chained the Mexican political class

Corruption scandals are facts that are constantly shaking Mexico. When there are not videos in which governors misuse public resources, it is national media surveys revealing the purchase of sumptuous homes at the same time. 39, inside the country or abroad.

Citizenship due to some of these disclosures will be remembered. to the shamelessness with which some politicians acted after putting an end to their illicit activities. Here are the most memorable cases:

The head of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), recognized early February 2019 the existence of a penthouse in Houston, Texas, after the Mexican newspaper Reform will report on the property, which has a value greater than 500,000 USD.

Department, located in Park Square tower, has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Cordero and her husband probably acquired it in 2009.

Another official who has fallen into residential scandals, a member of the cabinet of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is the Secretary of Communications and Transport. Like Sánchez Cordero, it was Reform the newspaper revealing the employee's condominium, located in Houston and valued at 310,680 USD.

An investigation into the official records of Texas reports that the secretary owns condo 603 at Briar Place, Through Houston Relay Real Estate Inc., a company that he incorporated on January 9, 2016 and of which he is the sole director.

Property is only one block from the tower where Sánchez Cordero has his apartment, in a neighborhood near Texas' largest mall, The Galleria. The extension of the condominium is 158 square meters.

On the afternoon of Monday, Espriú badured that the property had been given in 2016 to an American company where he was a director, which is in the public domain. And he added that "before my return as a public official, the acts of that company, which were in my name, pbaded to my son's property Javier Jiménez Gutiérrez ".

The former governor of Veracruz managed to accumulate in his mandate, from December 2010 to October 2016, more than 90 properties in Mexico and around the world.

After the Mexican authorities issued a warrant for arrest against him, drawn from 32 files initiated by the Tax Administration Service (SAT), it was discovered that he and his wife, Karime Macías , managed to become a real estate empire full of mansions, ranches, apartments and even timeshares; with properties in Florida, Texas, Arizona, Houston, New York, Madrid and Bilbao.

In September 2018, it was announced that the couple had bought a house in Miami of 7 million USD, through a Uruguayan financier and a borrower, as confirmed by José Juan Janeiro Rodriguez, a financial operator who testified against the former governor. The mansion, located in the exclusive town of Coral Gables, was acquired in November 2015.

In Texas, Javier Duarte acquired a Manor House valued at 720 000 USD, located in the Woodlands neighborhood of Montgomery County.

According to reports from the prosecutor's office of Veracruz, Duarte also bought in Madrid a department of over 100 square meters worth more than 5 million euros, located on Calle Antonio Acuña, a few meters from the Retiro Park.

In February 2018, a joint investigation of the weekly Process and the Mexicans against corruption and impunity, said that the former governor of Chihuahua and the fugitive justice, the PRIIST César Duarte, had at least nine houses in the city of El Paso, Texas.

Among these properties, the most famous was at 323 Amelia Drive, of an approximate value of 2.5 million USD. The mansion was built on one of the highest parts of the hill; in front, it has a stone wall and an electrified fence that separates the patio from the garage.

The Mexican media survey revealed that less than half a kilometer further, in the area called Morning Star Estates, there was another mansion belonging to the Duarte Jáquez family, for a minimum cost of 1.5 million USD. The residence has two floors, has a garage for two cars and twelve windows decorated with stone frames.

A residence is also registered in the eastern area of ​​El Paso, at number 1594-A of Bengal Drive. Although much more modest, its price is between 170,000 and 200,000 USD.

Maria Alejandra Barrales Magdaleno

The former candidate for the governorship of the CDMX coalition capital at the Front and national president of the Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD) has been involved in various controversies after the announcement of I had a department in Miami for a cost of 724,920 USD, bought in February 2016 and did not include in his tax return and his interests, filed the same year.

It is presumed that the property was acquired through Maxba Development Inc, which was created by the own Barrales exclusively for the purchase and investment of real estate. It was located in the exclusive area of ​​Sunny Isles, north of Miami Beach.

The former senator of the republic paid 990,000 USD for the department; of this amount, US $ 300,000 was requested from the National Bank of the East by a mortgage loan.

Although Barrales denied having failed to mention the ministry in his statement, he later sent a letter of clarification to the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) and Mexican Transparency., institutions that save statements 3 of 3, accepting the lack and calling it "inaccurate".

One of the most scandalous news of the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto was caused by his wife still A luxury apartment was found in the exclusive Florida Key Biscayane Villa. Priced at USD 2.5 million, the building is located in the Ocean Club Tower One.

The British newspaper The Guardian reported in 2016 the discovery of the property, which was bought by Grupo Pierdant, a company that then participated in the tender offer to develop the seaports in Mexico, which raised suspicions of corruption and conflicts of interest.

Years later, in 2019, the Mexican media announced that the former first lady had acquired in Los Angeles, California, a house worth $ 3 million 313,920. After the news, Rivera said the news was false and that the house had been rented by the father of his daughters.

The former leader of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) is another Mexican policy He has managed to acquire a large number of properties during his years as a teaching leader.

In addition to their homes in Mexico, Gordillo has two luxury residences in Green Turtle Village, La Jolla, California valued at nearly $ 9 million.

One of the properties has seven rooms and 8 and a half baths. The master bedroom has a sauna, and the place has a spa and a pool terrace and a laundry room.

The other house is located in the same street, at number 23 of a private luxury. It is located in front of the sea in the Catos de Coronado, has its own pool and a personal pier of ten meters.