They reveal the investigation of the FGR against Alejandro Moreno

Gustavo Castillo and Emir Olivares

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday July 9, 2022, p. 5

The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) opened an investigation folder against the national leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, for the alleged commission of five crimes, including operations with resources of illicit origin and tax fraud, The Mexican government reported on its Twitter account.

In @GobiernoMXofficial and certified account on Twitter, the federal government posted at 7:30 p.m.: “For the possible crimes of influence peddling, diversion of federal funds, money laundering, illicit enrichment and tax fraud, the @FGRMexico launched an investigation folder against @alitomorenocformer governor of Campeche and current national leader of the #PRI”.

About 50 minutes later, the tweet was deleted without further explanation. the day He searched the social communication channels for the representatives of the FGR and the Presidency of the Republic to ask why the message was deleted, and in no case was there an official response. However, federal government officials – who requested anonymity – confirmed the existence of the investigation.

Moreno Cárdenas, former governor of Campeche, is in Europe. In Geneva he attended the meeting of the Socialist International and announced that he would expose a claim against what he considers persecution, assuming himself as politically persecuted. Likewise, he would go to Brussels, Belgium, in order to appear at the European Union headquarters to raise the claim against the Mexican government, after various recordings were released that allegedly involve him in illicit acts, such as financial triangulations to hide his assets.

the leader tricolor He is being investigated by the Campeche Attorney General’s Office as allegedly responsible for various crimes, including money laundering and illicit enrichment, as part of a common law investigation.

However, at 7:30 p.m. yesterday and in the account @GobiernoMX It was when the existence of the federal investigation against the PRI leader became known.

Ministerial sources confirmed to the day that various areas of the FGR participate in the investigation against Moreno Cárdenas, since the crimes that he is presumed to have committed are the responsibility of instances such as the Specialized Prosecutor for Organized Crime, as regards operations with resources of illicit origin.

Meanwhile, tax fraud, diversion of federal funds, illicit enrichment and tax fraud are investigated by the Specialized Unit for Fiscal and Financial Crimes, which depends on the Specialized Prosecutor for Regional Control, headed by Juan Ramos, one of the most trusted men of the head of the FGR, Alejandro Gertz Manero.

Justice is used to attack opponents: wing

Moreno Cárdenas warned that the fact that the Presidency of the Republic has announced the opening of investigation files for federal crimes is proof that he faces political persecution from the federal government, since the body that should have announced it is the FGR, which is an autonomous body.

In addition, minutes later they deleted the tweet from the official page of the Presidency of the Republic. This throws away any investigation folderbecause due process and the presumption of innocence were violated, stressed wing in a video recorded from the European continent. It is clear that it is intended to use the institutions of the Mexican State in matters of justice and security to attack opponents or those who are uncomfortable for the regimehe said, and announced that in the next few hours he will return to Mexico to take legal action.