Mexico City.- The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) arrested Araceli Ciriaco Arroyo in Mexico City, a member of a construction industry union that allegedly laundered more than 348 million pesos in 100 “front” companies.
According to the authority, the woman was part of the Union of Transport Industry Workers in General Construction, Hauling, Manufacturing, Demolition, Crushing and Similar of the Mexican Republic of the CTM.
A control judge at the Federal Criminal Justice Center of Almoloya de Juárez, in the State of Mexico, prosecuted the accused for the crimes of organized crime and operations with resources of illicit origin, better known as money laundering, the FGR reported. The judge imposed justified preventive detention in the Federal Women’s Penitentiary of Morelos and set a period of four months for complementary investigation, so that the FGR and the defense could gather their evidence.
The name of the now prosecuted woman coincides with that of the current deputy director of Material Resources of the National Institute of Neurology and former head of the Internal Control Body of the National Institute of Psychiatry and the College of Bachelors.
The Federal Ministerial Police (PFM) of the FGR arrested Ciriaco Arroyo a few days ago in San Miguel Topilejo, in the Tlalpan Mayor’s Office, in this capital. The woman is part of a list of 45 people against whom an arrest warrant was issued in October 2021, for the laundering of more than 348 million pesos through bank transfers between the union and 100 front companies, from 2012 to 2018. The FGR stated that in the particular case of Ciriaco Arroyo, the illicit operations attributed to him, through the conglomerate of legal entities and the union, occurred in 2014 and 2015. In December 2022, REFORMA announced this investigation of the FGR and it was reported that up to that point six members of the union and individuals had been captured and prosecuted, including its leader Leopoldo Quintanar Medina, who was originally detained in the Altiplano prison on July 18, 2016 by the Financial Intelligence Unit. (UIF) blocked the union’s accounts in Santander, Banorte and Banca Afirme, and a month later filed a complaint against the workers’ organization for money laundering. The Prosecutor’s Office maintains that this union was supposedly formed as a de facto criminal organization to launder. money and that his modus operandi consisted of using billing companies or paper companies to transfer millions of pesos to the accounts of the union organization. With the union coffers funded, the union triangulated the money to non-union members. In its initial investigation, the FIU also located deposits to the Union of Similar and Related Specialized Workers and Employees of the Mexican Republic, a supposedly “front” organization that would have operated illicit resources. This second group involved had as its financial representative Eduardo Sierra González, arrested in October 2010 in Canada for allegedly being related to a shipment of 212 kilos of cocaine and 63 kilos of methamphetamine seized in Vancouver.
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