The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Mexican investigates former president Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) for possible “operations with resources of illicit origin” for an amount of more than 26 million pesos (about 1.25 million dollars).
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“The complete information with all its details and details has been delivered to the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic and the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (which) has already opened an investigation folder”, revealed this Thursday Pablo Gómezhead of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) of the Government of Mexico.
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The FIU, which depends on the Ministry of Finance, “detected a scheme” where the former president “obtained economic benefits through international transfers” for a total amount of 26 million 1,429 pesos (just over 1.25 million dollars).
After this investigation, he filed a complaint with the FGR “for possible operations with resources of illicit origin.”
“These resources were transferred by a blood relative, from an account in Mexico to SpainIn addition, said family applied these operations with a brother of the former president, by sending him checks,” Gómez explained at the daily press conference at the National Palace.
This was reported by Pablo Gómez, head of the Financial Intelligence Unit, about the investigation folder in the Attorney General’s Office against former President Enrique Peña Nieto, for alleged fiscal and financial irregularities.
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The transfers were made in three moments: one for 16 million pesos (almost $773,000) on August 21, 2019, in addition to two for five million pesos each (more than $241,500) on October 20 and December 29. October 2021. The FIU began the investigation based on these transfers made in October of last year.
The relative of the former president withdrew a total of 189 million pesos in cash (9.1 million dollars) and deposits of 47 million pesos (2.2 million dollars) between 2013 and 2022, money of which the source is unknown, according to Gomez.
We are not talking here about facts related to public servants, but we are talking about issues that may be related to the public function.
In addition, the FIU detected that the former president has corporate links with two companies, of which he did not reveal his name, with “fiscal and financial irregularities.”
The investigation comes despite the fact that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised not to seek “revenge” or “persecute” his predecessors.
In his conference, the current president asserted that his government has the obligation to deliver information to the FGR on “politically exposed” people, but asked “not to make summary judgments.”
“It is not to go out and say: former president Peña is accused of money laundering, no. There is information on operations that he carried out,” argued López Obrador.
He stressed that the judges and the Public Ministry will be in charge of establishing if there is a crime.
EFE
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