During the hearing held this Wednesday, the UIF representative affirmed that these complaints can be prosecuted at any time, which is why he supported the FGR’s request to modify the precautionary measure against the former director of Pemex
Before the control judge imposed justified preventive detention on Emilio Lozoya , the representative of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) informed the judge that since 2019 to date he has already filed eight complaints against the former director of Petróleos Mexicanos ( Pemex ).
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Yesterday, during the hearing held before Judge José Artemio Zúñiga, attached to the Federal Criminal Justice Center of the North Prison, the representative of the UIF affirmed that these complaints can be prosecuted at any time, which is why he supported the request of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic ( FGR ) to modify the provisional release measure that benefited the former director of Pemex.
The most recent ones were presented on July 16 and last August 20 against 34 and four people respectively.
In both complaints, Emilio Lozoya is one of those likely responsible for the Odebrecht case , an investigation in which the former director of Pemex was linked to a process since July 2020 for money laundering, criminal association and bribery and in which the measure was modified. precautionary.
On January 24, 2019, the FIU filed a complaint against 13 people, including Lozoya Austin and his wife Marielle Helene Eckes , for money laundering through the German company Yacani, which offers real estate and rental services in Mexico. .
The FIU indicated that Yacani was used to triangulate the bribes that Lozoya received from Odebrecht.
In the case of the bribes of Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA), owned by Alonso Ancira , allegedly delivered to Lozoya, the UIF denounced four people on May 25, 2019.
From this case, the complaints of June 28 and September 2 of the same year related to Tochos, where eight people were identified, and OHL, where 10 more people were named.
This is due to the fact that these companies, according to the FIU, were used to triangulate Pemex resources through different contracts.
Globe Live Media reported in September 2019 that irregular contracts were detected within Pemex from which resources were diverted for more than 568 million pesos under the Master Scam scheme.
After detecting these deviations, the UIF filed two complaints, on September 2 against 25 people for the Master Scam case and on September 13 of that same year against 23 people related to Emilio Lozoya and the company Maheca, SA de C. V, used for irregular hires.
In its complaint, the FIU asked the FGR to give a hearing to the Ministry of Public Function to investigate the administrative responsibility that Pemex officials who participated in this scheme could incur.