“Here also one of the things we want to do is that there are many crimes. The act of corruption does not imply anything more than the work of the public servant’s powers, but rather implies other things beyond (…) So the idea is to exhaust all the existing legal instances so that it is not only channeled in a single direction. We are going to enforce not only administrative matters, but also make them comply with the entire legal framework that includes criminal and commercial law,” he said.
In addition, he maintained that he will seek to use all the elements, since he said that the government has only become accustomed to using administrative matters and that has caused people to abuse by not having a “strong” punishment, which is why he emphasized that sanctions must be imposed. acts of corruption committed by private individuals and public servants.
“We have to use all the elements, the criminal matter exists, the commercial matter exists, the civil matter exists only that we do not use it. The government was used to only using administrative matters and people have abused it so much that they do not have a really strong sanction when they commit acts. The only thing we are saying is that we are going to use all legal and legal provisions,” he mentioned at the end of his appearance.
During his appearance before Senate committees, prior to his ratification as head of the SFP – which would later be called the Anti-Corruption and Good Government Secretariat – he also defended the disappearance of the INAI, along with six other autonomous bodies, by ensuring that its objective was “distorted.” for which it was created.
“What happened with the INAI and what happened in other countries, and that is why they stopped being autonomous, is that the objective with which they were created was distorted. They are devices that are onerous, that are expensive and that for one reason or another did not work. So since they did not work, what is being done is a proposal that in the end consists of making the use of resources more efficient,” said the official.
He also mentioned that the disappearance of the Institute, as well as the other autonomous bodies, does not violate the terms of the trade agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC) and justified this reform by pointing out that in said North American countries they do not have with autonomous instances of transparency and protection of personal data.
His ratification was endorsed by the Senate’s Government, Anti-Corruption and Transparency commissions with 21 votes in favor and two against, so his appointment will now be discussed in the plenary session of the upper house.
