CDMX.- Genaro García Luna had presumably illicit income of at least 27.3 million pesos during his time in the Criminal Investigation Agency and the federal Public Security Secretariat, as documented by the General Prosecutor of the Republic (FGR).
The arrest warrant against the former police commander for the crime of illicit enrichment reveals that it is additional income to the 23.4 million pesos he received as a public servant in the six-year terms of Vincent Fox Y Felipe Calderon.
The file on García Luna, imprisoned since 2019 in the US where he faces drug trafficking charges, states that between 2000 and 2012 he received bank deposits from unidentified persons for 15 million pesos and participated in the purchase and sale of at least five properties for 9.7 million. of weights.
He also made unidentified payments for 2.3 million pesos to credit cards and purchased a vehicle for more than 617 thousand pesos.
In those years he never had a legal income other than the one he received in the public service, according to the imputation of the FGR, based on the patrimonial declarations registered before the Public Function Secretary (SFP).
The case of illicit enrichment is only one of the three arrest warrants that García Luna has in Mexico. The others are related to the “Fast and Furious” case and to the overpriced concessions of federal prisons to real estate companies.
In both matters, the FGR has recently suffered legal setbacks, trying to keep other accused under trial. But in the event that he were to be extradited to Mexico, the Prosecutor’s Office has now prepared the ground to request his preventive imprisonment, alleging that it would be easy for him to leave the country.
For this reason, he requested reports from the National Migration Institute, which informed him that from July 29, 2010 to November 24, 2019, García Luna entered and left the national territory on 209 occasions, mainly to the United States, a country in which he has been a permanent resident since 2013.
The goods
The real estate operations imputed by the Ministry of Public Administration and the FGR correspond to five assets that it acquired from 2000 to 2012 in CDMX and Morelos.
The imputation does not question the total value of these properties, which amounted to 15.2 million pesos, but 9.7 million whose origin is not clear.
For example, the Prosecutor’s Office points out that the house at Calle Montaña de Omoa 17, Colonia Jardines en la Montaña, in Tlalpan, had a price of 7.5 million pesos, and to pay for it, García Luna obtained a 5.8 million loan from Inbursa in 2007.
The federal authority, however, accuses that for now there is no way of knowing where he got 1.7 million to pay the remaining amount.
The other operations under suspicion are the purchase of two lots in Valle Amate, Fraccionamiento Pedregal de las Fuentes, in Jiutepec, Morelos, for which a total of 356 thousand pesos was disbursed in 2002 and of which the authority indicates that “it was not possible to accountably identify the payment”.
Also the acquisition of a house in the Rincón de las Delicias subdivision, in Cuernavaca, which he bought in 2006 for 862,800 pesos and sold in 2009 to his sister Luz María García Luna for 880,800 pesos.
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In 2006, through another mortgage loan, he acquired a property in CDMX for 2.3 million pesos, for which there is no accounting information on the payment, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The last acquisition he made as a public servant and which, according to the ministerial authority, suffers from the same verification deficiency, is that of a piece of land in the country’s capital for which he paid 4 million 87 thousand pesos in 2008.
They investigate FIU contracts
The FGR investigates whether or not the contract signed by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), in the times of Santiago Nieto, with two US firms that filed a civil lawsuit against Genaro García Luna on behalf of the Government of Mexico for 250 million dollars.
The Prosecutor’s Office questions whether the FIU had the authority to contract legal services abroad or whether the Ministry of Finance should have done it, as its hierarchical superior, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The lawsuit includes 7 other individuals and 39 legal entities and is processed in a Court in Florida; The trial start hearing will be on May 8, 2023.
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