The Mexican businessman Alonso Ancira, extradited last February from Spain, was released on Monday night after agreeing to compensate the state oil company Pemex with 216.6 million dollars for surcharges in a negotiation, informed judicial sources.

Ancira left the northern jail of Mexico City where he was held without offering statements to the press, according to images broadcast by the Milenio television channel.

Hours before, a judge had suspended the process against the businessman, after he signed a reparation agreement in three payments that will be effective between now and 2023, a source from the Federal Judicial Council told the press.

“By virtue of the signing of the reparatory agreement, the precautionary measure is lifted and his immediate release is ordered,” the source noted.

The federal judge also ordered the suspension of the red card of Interpol, an organization that in 2019 carried out his arrest in Palma de Mallorca for alleged corruption.

The former president of the company Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) is accused of having sold to Pemex, in 2012, a fertilizer plant with a markup of $200 million.

The operation, for a total of 500 million dollars, was endorsed by the then director of the oil company, Emilio Lozoya, who faces the investigation for that case on probation.

Ancira He was arrested on May 28, 2019 in Palma de Mallorca, also accused of alleged fraud against the public administration and belonging to an organization, association or criminal group.

A month later, he was released after paying a million dollars in bail, but later the Spanish justice authorized his extradition, which became effective on February 3.

Lozoya, who directed Pemex From 2012 to 2016, he is also reported to have received bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, which according to him financed the campaign of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), in which he served as head of international affairs.

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