Javier Tejado explained that Miguel Alemán Velasco, Miguel Alemán Magnani’s father, “was saved” from an order against him for two reasons: “His age (he is 89) and that the government needs someone with whom to negotiate and, above all, to pay what they owe them”.
The Alemán family has been involved in legal problems in recent years after the purchase of Radiópolis from Televisa and the bankruptcy of Interjet.
Regarding his business, the columnist of The universal assures that “they flourished under the protection of businesses linked to politics, especially since the grandfather of the current fugitive was Republic President and the father, Governor of Veracruz and Senator of the Republic.”
“From public office they made resources and million dollar properties in CDMX (Polanco and La Herradura), Veracruz, Guerrero and in Baja California Sur. Despite rampant corruption, they managed to penetrate and rub shoulders with the business elite.”
Tejado assures that the family’s problems “began with their excessive expenses, their lack of supervision in business and by placing their trust in people who deceived them” and cites the bankruptcy of Interjet.
“A great low-cost airline, but one that its managers recommended to them to buy and innovate with planes of Russian origin, the Sukhoi. Airplanes that had problems in the United States and of which there were no spare parts. Of course, its managers received important commissions behind the back of their bosses”, he adds in this regard.
The ITAM lawyer adds in his column that the problems of the German emporium are also explained by the involvement of people of apparent trust in their businesses, among them, Ángel Junquera, partner of the niece Diana Ramírez Magnani, who is also a fugitive from the justice for the case of Cooperativa Cruz Azul.
“Ángel Junquera made them a wrong and risky tax planning,” he says.
AMLO “intrigued by the litigation involving Miguel Alemán Velasco, who is part of his advisory council, tried to call for a mediation between individuals in his legal problems. But when he found out that he also owed money to the SAT, to Airports and Auxiliary Services and that, in addition, he had defrauded thousands of passengers and owed several fortnights to his own workers, he gave up on mediating and, on the contrary, asked that he be charged what they owed the government,” he reveals.
It is said that the family is currently on the east coast of the United States and claims that they are “politically persecuted”.