Edgar Riou Pérez, cousin and private secretary of the governor of Morelos, Cuauhtemoc Blancopromoted an amparo to avoid being arrested, after the Morelos Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation against him.
“It is noted that the direct complainant in compliance with the order of May 27 last, ratified the letter received on the twenty-sixth of said month and year (May 2022), in the Registry Office of this District Court, registered under folio 10052 , by means of which the prevention carried out in the present trial is corrected; be added to the records and the ratification of merit is considered to have been carried out.
“For which the following is provided: The amparo claim, filed by Edgar Riou Pérez, against acts of the Specialized Control Judges of the Single Judicial District in the Accusatory Penal System based in Atlacholoaya and others, is admitted,” it is indicated in the trial with file 631/2022.
The Second District Judge in the State of Morelos set for July 27 the constitutional hearing to determine whether or not the amparo claim is admissible.
REFORMA published this Saturday that the Morelos Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office initiated an investigation against him for dispersing more than 11 million pesos in ant deposits to the family circle and collaborators of the state president, an investigation that began at the federal level since 2020.
The complaint, now prosecuted in Morelostook up part of the research carried out by the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) and the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) in that year, when both agencies detected a network of money laundering and millionaire accounts in the Governor’s environment.
Edgar Riou Pérez has been carrying an accusation since 2020 for alleged money laundering, along with the state president and other relatives.
To the investigation of the Anticorruption Prosecutor against Edgar Riou Perez It was extended to Jaime Tamayo Godínez, a friend of the former soccer player and owner of the “Cuauhteminha” brand.
This is due to his alleged corrupt complicity with the public servant Riou Pérez, in the inexplicable dispersion of resources.
In 2019, Tamayo received deposits of 43.6 million pesos and withdrew 40.2 million.
In addition, 558.2 million pesos were deposited in their bank accounts between 2013 and 2019, for which the FGR found evidence of money laundering.
From Tamayo’s account in Santander, the FIU located, for example, deposits for 505.4 million pesos from August 2016 to October 2018 and payments such as one for 5 million pesos for Comercializadora Prato, which was previously classified as a shell company or “facade”.
Official sources affirmed that the Judicial Branch of Morelos is ready to call both of them to account. However, until now, only Riou has filed an injunction to avoid being arrested.
Against Cuauhtemoc Blanco
In April, the Specialized Prosecutor for Combating Corruption of Morelos presented in the state Congress a request for legal proceedings against Governor Cuauhtémoc Blanco for three alleged crimes that he has been accused of since 2014.
In addition, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has five other investigation files open against the Morelos president.
Among the five investigations, the case of the photograph in which Blanco posed with three alleged leaders of organized crime stands out in the parish office of the church of La Asunción de María, in Yautepec.
A day later, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed his “support” for Cuauhtémoc Blanco before the judicial investigation opened against him for corruption.
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“They bring it against Cuauhtémoc Blanco and they don’t stop attacking him, but I support him,” said the president about the controversial official, also considered one of the best soccer players in the history of Mexico.
The Morelos Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office requested an appropriate trial against Blanco for illicit enrichment, procedural fraud, false statements, forgery of documents and illicit exercise of functions.
“Yes (he is still a trustworthy person), and what is behind it, to put it kindly, subtly, is politicking,” said the President.
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