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A member of Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice arrested indefinitely any investigation or legal action that the state government of Chihuahuain the north of the country, against the president Enrique Peña Nieto during his mission or at the end of it, as well as his cabinet, reports the newspaper Milenio.
On 11 October, the Legal Counsel of the Mexican Presidency presented to the Supreme Court a constitutional controversy require any warrants of arrest, arraigo, subpoenas, investigations or investigation files initiated by local authorities against federal officials, including Peña Nieto.
It was about first time that the federal executive has submitted an application of this type.
The controversy has been presented by the Mexican presidency to the warnings of Javier Corral, governor of Chihuahua, that Peña Nieto will take him to prison once his term is over.
On October 18, Corral described the controversy presented by the Mexican presidency questionable resource in terms of legal nature. "There is also an indisputable political fact: the President of the Republic worries about Chihuahua investigations and this concern can be contextualized in a very old saying, but with a new application: If something is scared, it's because something has to"he said.
Corral then pointed out that the state of Chihuahua had opened investigations, such as that of Alejandro Gutiérrez, former secretary general of the PRI, a party that had led Peña Nieto to the Mexican presidency, accused of millionaire detours which, presumably, have been used to fund party election campaigns.
"This is an inquiry that, of course, is the responsibility of the federal government because it is a deviation that is part of a multi-million dollar operation misappropriation of public resources, where the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit has acted in several federal entities of the country, "said Corral, who has not yet spoken of the minister's decision.
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