Emilio Lozoya: The scourge against Odebrecht’s corruption shines in Mexico with the shadow of impunity | International

Emilio Lozoya, the director of the Mexican state gas station Pemex between 2012 and 2016, was detained exactly one year ago in an urban area near Malaga, Spain. Since then, the expedition has been involved in involving one of the men most closely related to President Enrique Peña Nieto. In this case, an estimate of the redundancy of millionaires of the Brazilian builder Odebrecht, is being dropped since months between transparency and the controversy caused by the benefits granted to politicians in the exchange of justice. With these conditions, there is the moment of the scandal of corruption, with repercussions on the political balances of Mexico, which impedes.

The instruction entered a new phase on July 28, when Spain added to Lozoya. The Executive Director referred to his country and ingress alleging anemia and esophageal problems in a private clinic, from which he participated in the first video conference conference. The Mexican Institute of Transparency and Access to Information has organized these firms in the Fiscalia to make public the medical part that prevents Lozoya from increasing the price in the case that is followed by money and money laundering. The authorities also won with other irregular payments from the Altos Hornos of Mexico steelworks and companies related to the Spanish constructor OHL, as the PAIS recently revealed. Today, Lozoya solicits a known figure as an opportunity criterion that, in practice, converts into a protected type of testimony. Since then no one has been judged.

In exchange for benefits and to follow the process of liberty, Lozoya accounted for the Taxation that the tram of corruption in which supuestamente participated llegaba to the height of the dome of the Government of Peña Nieto. In addition to the executor, one of his most loyal men, Hacienda’s minister Luis Videgaray, who received a total of 500 million dollars in the PRI’s 2012 election campaign and the opposition’s opposition congress the controversy over energy reform, which the sector abraded the private companies after decades of nationalist politics. Also involved in the tram to the ex-presidents Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) and Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994). The public information of the case is administered by accountants, with filings and declarations made by General Tax Officer, Alejandro Gertz, who has made sure that he encounters with PAN senators that the process follows his course and the director of Pemex will be.

Of the December principles, without embargo, there is no information indicating that the case is advanced. In the final of the year, the Taxpayer held the hearing of the presiding officer of the PAN, Jorge Luis Lavalle, to whom Emilio Lozoya had agreed to receive the sobriety for a part of the party’s bank which was the energy aperture between them , Francisco Cabeza de Vaca and Francisco Domínguez. Lavalle recounts the allegations made that one of his collaborators has admitted to appearing in videos in which he receives money from money effectively. “Ejerceré mi derecho de defensa frente a las mentiras del delincuente confeso Emilio Lozoya”, escribió Lavalle el 26 deenero.

A case in total obscurity

The opacity is one of the mayors’ motives for pre-empting the case. The platform of lawyers Tojil and Transparency Mexico will send a card to the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Arturo Zaldívar, on July 9, after Spain extradited to Lozoya to Mexico. The organizations demanded an aperture in a case that was converted into the banner of the anti-corruption crucifixion of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. However, the Council of the Judiciary has additional restrictions imposed by the pandemic on initial hearings. “The principle of constitutional publicity of criminal hearings should not be affected by those mediations [sanitarias]. This is especially important in a case that may have been linked to a transnational red tape associated with the Odebrecht company. The transparency of this procedure results from public interest at the national and international level ”, indicates the association card.

Poco sirvió. The judiciary informs the public auditions of Lozoya in Mexico by a Whatsapp group. También fueron descartadas solicitudes al juez y amparos, relata la abogada Adriana Greaves, de Tojil, quien cuestiona que se concediera a Lozoya la oportunidad de colaborar con la justicia y rechaza la stratategia de la defensa, que lo esta presento colo “ . The lawyer considers it crucial to note the process in the Odebrecht case, which is infiltrated and superstitious – at least in part – to dozens of administrations across the United States in terms of concessions and contracts. Since the scale of the scandal was announced, between the finals of 2016 and the principles of 2017, the investigations have provoked authentic political turmoil in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil and Colombia. Mexico runs the risk of converting into an exception.

“The Lozoya case, a trade union in Mexico, has been given extraordinary signs. These suspects and their initials have been confirmed, “said constitutional lawyer Luis Pérez de Acha. “No quedaban clarifies the reasons given by the sources in Lozoya if the pretense is to conclude the benefits of the criterion of opportunity, and is the result of deletions of the type of delusions which it has accused”, said this expert, who breathes in the signals of Pemex’s Executive Director of Relation and Replenishment of Rheumatology. “It is a novel narrative based on hypothesis. Señalaba of selective manner more than manner of cotilleo, chismorreo, with information unsupported ”, value. “A year has long been more than enough for Lozoya to have proprietary elements of evidence that support mayor’s information and relevance.”

The Fiscals of the investigation have suggested that there are disputes to suspend the proceedings against Lozoya before March 7 if they provide sufficient and robust evidence to support their charges. The trial of the plaintiff will be the formal comparability of the Superintendent Lavalle, who has not yet done so, has been able to defend himself voluntarily from what he considers “politically motivated lies”. If the case against Lavalle does not prosper, it will be difficult for Lozoya’s reporters, a free man at the moment, to keep up.

These considerations are in addition to the mediation of the plenary process in full the election, where the President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will refer in this case as far as his conferences are concerned to the political class that the antecedents and many parties rumbo to the July comics. The principles of admissibility that this case is the time and the fact that it is informed about the evolution of the fisheries. Mientras tanto, pese a ser cases mui distintos, otro fantasma sobrevuela the process and is what he sued with the Secretary of Defense, Salvador Cienfuegos. Accused of narcotics, extradited from the United States and finally exonerated by the Fiscalia.

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