Cesar Arellano Garcia
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday February 10, 2023, p. 4
For the second time, the fifth collegiate court in administrative matters in Mexico City ordered the unlocking of the bank accounts of Luis Cárdenas Palomino, former director of Regional Security of the now extinct Federal Police (PF) and one of the men closest to Genaro García Luna. , Secretary of Public Security during the government of Felipe Calderón.
The previous time was last January, when the court confirmed an injunction in favor of the former police chief. This ruling was exposed yesterday at the presidential conference by the head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Ministry of Finance, Pablo Gómez.
The decision of the magistrates Pablo Domínguez Peregrina, María Elena Rosas and Jorge Antonio Cruz Ramos is similar to another from November 2020, when they revoked the sentence of a federal judge and granted a definitive suspension to Cárdenas Palomino so that he had access to his accounts in the Santander, Citibanamex and Azteca banks, frozen by the FIU at the end of 2019.
According to the file, of which you have a copy the daythe FIU indicated that it added the complainant to the list of blocked persons, due to a request for international assistance and to prevent crimes of money laundering and financing of terrorism.
For this reason, the agency reported the name of Luis Cárdenas Palomino to financial entities, through the National Banking and Securities Commission, so that, among other cases, they suspend the performance of acts, operations or services with those resources.
However, the magistrates indicated that there was no manifest request from the deputy regional director of the United States anti-drug agency, through which he expressly requested the blocking of Cárdenas Palomino’s accounts, since he only required information in support of a investigation into money laundering.
The court decided that the simple mention by the FIU that the blocking of the complainant’s accounts derives from the application of article 115 of the Credit Institutions Law, due to an international request, was not enough.
