Incomes that don’t add up and the millionaire properties of the mayor of Guadalajara

Jesus Pablo Lemus Navarro, Mayor of Guadalajarais in the midst of controversy after the millionaire hiring of a french carousel as a new tourist attraction for the capital of Jalisco.

According to documents from the National Platform for Transparency, the carousel had a cost of 25.9 million pesos and the company was acquired Architainment through the “CO-131/CV2022” contract.

Besides the high cost of the carousel, its installation had a delay of almost a month and a half, since its operation was scheduled for December 31, 2022 and it was ready until February 13 of this year.

For this reason, the government of Lemus Navarro demanded a sanction against the supplier for 2.5 million pesosapproximately 10% of the total cost of the tourist attraction inaugurated with great fanfare in the company of the Governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro.

Beyond the controversy, Pablo Lemus gradually rose within the politics of Guadalajara, twice mayor of Zapopan and now from Guadalajarahas in its sights the state government with the supposed come of Enrique Alfaro, since both are the standard bearers of Citizen movement.

At GlobeLiveMedia México we have reviewed asset declaration of Lemus Navarro and we found a series of differences in your income there opacity at the presentation of his heritage.

In mid-2022, Pablo Lemus submitted his second and final asset declaration as mayor of Guadalajara.

In the 61-page document, the president of Guadalajara reports annual income of 926 thousand 858 pesosof which 254 thousand 914 pesos came from his salary as a civil servant and 671 thousand 944 pesos for his private gains.

In the case of your private income, this comes from rental of commercial premises.

While his salary as a civil servant, referring to the whole of 2021, came from two sources: his last months as Mayor of Zapopan and his first months as Municipal President of Guadalajara.

However, the records of the transparency portals of the two municipalities indicate that Lemus Navarro reported less government revenue of the ones he actually had at the time.

The Compensation Section of the Government of Guadalajara indicates that Jesús Pablo received 221 thousand 778 pesos the last three months of 2021. In October – the month of his taking office – and in November, his salary was 60,586.40 pesos per month, while in December it was 100,605.47 pesos.

For its part, the town hall of Zapopan specifies that Lemus Navarro won 120 thousand 873.68 pesos in January and February, just over 60,000 pesos per month. For the second month of 2021, he has applied for a license to run for mayor of the capital of Guadalajara.

This means that Pablo Lemus’ net income as a public official was 342 thousand 651.95 pesos and not 254 thousand 914 pesos as stated. That’s to say, 87 thousand 737.95 pesos difference.

Throughout the 61 pages that make up his declaration of assets, Pablo Lemus deleted data from your estate based on the Law of Transparency and Access to Public Information of the State of Jalisco and its municipalities.

Thus, you cannot know the details of his seven properties, his seven bank accounts and even his five debts.

However, in the first months of 2021, he presented his last heritage declaration as mayor of Zapopan, a document in which he revealed the contents of his heritage.

In this document he mentions seven properties of which only four have a value greater than the 46.5 million pesos.

Among the properties, two stand out Commercial buildingsthe one given to him by his father in 1974, when Pablo Lemus was barely four years old, and whose value is 6.8 million pesos.

He bought the other commercial premises in 2013, when he was general manager of Credicampo and news presenter, for 10.4 million pesos.

To the goods is added a Housebelonging to his wife, donated by his father in 2013 and worth 25.8 million pesos.

The other four buildings are to land. Three of them belong to his wife, from donations from his father which he received in 1999, 2001 and 2009, of which no further details are given.

The last piece of land was acquired through a exchange, in 2016, and its owner is an economic dependent of the mayor of Guadalajara. The property has a value of 3.4 million pesos.

Among the donations, the properties of the mayor of Guadalajara (Capture of the patrimonial declaration of Pablo Lemus)

The properties declared in his last declaration of assets as mayor of Zapopan coincide in quantity and ownership – that is, two belong to Lemus Navarro, four belong to his wife and one is jointly owned by a third- as the most recent presented to the Guadalajara City Council.

Both in the heritage declaration of the Zapopan government and that of Guadalajara, Jesús Lemus reported seven bank accounts.

Three of them are bank accounts, one in HSBCanother in Multiva Financial Group and one more in Merrill Lyncha bank in the United States where she has dollars.

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The difference between the document that the mayor gave to the authorities of Guadalajara and those of Zapopan, is that in the latter he made public the balance of his accounts, adding 22.2 million pesos there 135 thousand 182.01 dollars -about 2.7 million pesos-.

In the case of his debts, the mayor of Guadalajara reported five credit card: of the American Expressone in BBVAanother in Santander and a department iron palace.

In the section on participation in companies, societies and associations, Pablo Lemus told the government of Guadalajara that did not participate in the private initiative.

However, a year earlier, the Movimiento Ciudadano politician had assured the Zapopan city council that he was a partner in the company Reserved propertiesdedicated to real estate services.

On this occasion, he stated that he had been partner with 17% of the company’s stakeinstalled precisely in Jalisco.