Before AMLO, politicians stole $4.5 billion from the State with billing machines: Armenta

Roberto Garduño, Andrea Becerril and Victor Ballinas

Newspaper La Jornada
Friday November 25, 2022, p. 5

The president of the Senate, Alejandro Armenta, and the leader of Morena, Mario Delgado, regretted the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) that annulled the application of unofficial preventive detention (PPO) in tax crimes, since, They lamented, a rule aimed at preventing the looting of public finances is disappearing.

Armenta was president of the Finance Commission in 2019 when the reforms that expanded the application of the PPO were ruled.

Yesterday he assured that businessmen and politicians who became criminals diverted, in previous governments, more than 4.5 trillion pesos through shell companies and apocryphal invoices.

The Morenista senator added that he respects but does not share the Court’s resolution and hopes that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will bring new initiatives on the matter, that will put an end to corruption and unfair action of tax evaders.

He also rejected that senators and representatives had made a mistake in approving the reforms to expand the PPO. “We did the right thing and we are going to insist on legislating to avoid abuses.

Revolving Door of Corruption: Thin

For his part, Delgado stated that the ruling of the Court is a regression.

He pondered that in the current government there are no longer tax privileges or favors, but the fact that these crimes are not severely penalized, as is the case in other countries, uncovers the revolving door of large-scale corruption, to which white-collar criminals have been accustomed, and encourages them to live without fear of justicehe added.

The decision of the SCJN It is only celebrated by billers and smugglers who in the past, with impunity, lived by defrauding the public treasury. Through the backyard, the power mafia recovers the privileges that the majority of the people lost with the reformsindicated the president of Morena.