After his arrest in Spain, in February 2020, the former director of Petróleos Mexicanos during the administration of Enrique Pena Nieto, accused of receiving bribes from the Brazilian firm Oderbrecht, arrived in Mexico. Lourdes says that it was Lozoya’s father himself who began negotiations with the Mexican government for the return of his son, something that happened, although with “certain irregularities,” as Mendoza says.
Lozoya already had a process with the Mexican authorities, but Lourdes had one more, and it was with the same Emilio Lozoya, who tried to discredit the journalistic professionalism of the columnist. Months later, when the evidentiary moment of the demand arrives, Lourdes had to demonstrate that there was no such bag. “I quote pages 35 and 36 of the complaint, where it reads verbatim: Luis Videgaray He told me that when Obedrech’s bags of money arrived, I should go and buy a bag from Lourdes Mendoza, the journalist. First lie; Obedrech’s money did not arrive in bags, but in transfers to Lozoya’s accounts.
The second lie, according to our interviewee, was the place of the alleged purchase, because the Chanel store in Polanco closed in 2011, and Emilio Lozoya affirms that the “gift” to the journalist was given between 2013 and 2014. Being a “lady” in the networks it was the least of it, he says. The worst, says the journalist, is that they messed with her daughter. “They say that someone came back and told him: the lady says that she looks very pretty, but that she also needs her daughter’s tuition. My daughter was in nursery school and kindergarten 1, today she is 10 years old and she did not deserve to be Lady Chanel’s daughter.