Setback for the FGR: the judge canceled 3 important tests against Emilio Lozoya

Although the lawsuit against Emilio Lozoya Austin for the corruption case Odebrechtthe Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) found himself in trouble after the defense of the ex-official dispose of financial evidence on the.

This happened during the interim hearing held on Friday afternoon at the Mexico City North Prison Federal Criminal Justice Centerwhere the FGR was able to formulate the accusation against the former manager of Enrique Peña Nieto and his mother Gilda Margarita Austin after a year of waiting.

After an intense debate lasting about six hours, the FGR presented some of the evidence it has against Lozoya and laid the charge broadly: the former director of Pemex had agreements with representatives of Odebrecht and between 2013 and 2014 he would have received $6.5 million in order to get the company to benefit from public works contracts when he ran Pemex.

Similarly, Lozoya allegedly transferred 185 thousand dollars, received from Odebrecht, on account of his mother. After that, each of the evidence presented by the FGR was reviewed. But some of them were dismissed by the judge.

Among these, the one handed over by the Swiss authorities to the Mexican government, which contained Odebrecht’s transfers to the company, stood out. Holding of Latin American capitalproperty of Lozoya where he had received the bribes.

But in them, Lozoya Austin’s lawyer, Miguel Ontiverosindicated that he would be privacy breach private communications, since it concerned banking information without judicial control and e-mails between officials of at least three banks.

What was said by the defense of Lozoya Austin was taken into account by the judge Genaro Alarcon Lopezwhich favored the inviolability of communications and excluded testing.

But it was not only that, but also bank reports issued by the director of Odebrecht Mexico, Luis Meneses Weyllabout transfers to offshore companies allegedly used by the Brazilian company for millionaire deposits for kickbacks.

Among the companies was Holding of Latin American capital.

Seeing themselves surrounded, the FGR attempted to uphold the latter alleging that De Meneses provided the information as an official, but Lozoya Austin’s lawyer let that information slip. contained data from other companies.

On the other hand, the repair agreement concluded by the company Odebrecht in the United States was also canceled as evidence, because according to the media The conferenceit has been argued that Mexican regulations do not allow for the inclusion of the pleadings related to the case.

Thus, it was considered to have been obtained illegally by the FGR. However, the testimonies of Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht, Luis Alberto de Meneses Weyll and four other leading members of Brazilian society were approved.

Even with that, Lozoya Austin’s defense reported that will challenge 15 of the 66 tests planned by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office. Finally, Lozoya failed to reach a reparations agreement with the government of Mexico to be granted expediency criteria in the Odebrecht corruption case.

Regarding the resources requested by the Mexican state to repair the damage, he pointed out that with a “huge effort” they managed to raise 10,700,000 dollars. He also said he had the “firm decision” to regularize his complaint and repair the damage.

But the Mexican state asked the former official and his family for a reparations agreement greater than the 200 million pesos.