Mexico City.- Loretta Ortiz, Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), said she had received offers from Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s companies before resolving one of his cases.
“Before I started as minister, Salinas Pliego’s group came to me and told me, and I was the first to resolve the first part, they came and approached me and told me: you need someone to handle your publicity, your entire image,” she said in an interview with Telereportaje, a radio station in Tabasco.
“No, I don’t need that… but you know that’s how people approach you, those are the ways to tempt, or I’ll do your advertising, I’ll pay for your tickets to go to your X, Y, Z games with your wife, lover, friend and you go to the stadiums and I don’t know what,” she added last Saturday while visiting Villahermosa. Ortiz seems to have referred to an Elektra review appeal that the Second Chamber of the Court rejected in January 2022, a project that she presented, and for which the company had to pay 2,636 million pesos to the SAT.
The minister inherited this file from Fernando Franco, whom she replaced in the Court at the end of 2021, and it is similar to two more from Elektra that the Court will review on October 2 and 9.
In the interview, Ortiz also reiterated her position that the strike of federal courts and tribunals, which began on August 19 in protest of the judicial reform, is illegal, because access to justice is a human right and a public service that can never be suspended. She argued that those who continue to refuse to dispense justice should be dismissed, and that those who protest “cannot extort” the application of a law, which in this case is also the Constitution. “It’s incredible,” she said. “There are many issues that involve trafficking of minors, human trafficking, violence against women, everything suspended. Because of a strike?” Ortiz, a former federal deputy for Morena, defended the reform, accused judges and magistrates of protecting each other, and said that when she was a counselor of the Federal Judiciary, she had to deal with the case of a magistrate who had committed eleven rapes and was not punished. However, the minister acknowledged that most judicial personnel are not corrupt and have a calling, and that a “big, big, big” reform of the prosecutor’s offices is urgently needed to complement that of the Judiciary.
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