The first case they talked about was a note – published in Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) and Latinus – which asserts that the work on the Malecón in Villahermosa, Tabasco, was awarded to Alejandro Castro because he was a person close to them, and that they built a money laundering network related to said work, which ended up in Luxembourg operated by Luis Doporto Alejandre.
The president’s children responded that they do not recommend anyone for public works contracts, and said that Alejandro Castro, on López Obrador’s orders, was in charge of supervising said work, but because “he is a talented person.” They also denied knowing Luis Doporto Alejandre.
The second case was when an investigation revealed that they had woven a network of corruption with the aim of benefiting the company Romedic and its owner Jorge Amílcar Olán Aparicio with contracts and public budgets from Insabi, state governments and Pemex.
Gonzalo Alfonso López Beltrán and Andrés Manuel López Beltrán mentioned that they met the businessman a few years ago in Tabasco, but that was because they have friends in common and because his wife was a schoolmate of one of them; however, they assured that neither of them had any knowledge about the awarding of contracts by the state governments.
“We are not involved in public administration at any level of government, much less do we have any influence or interference in the decisions that said governments decide to take in relation to tenders, acquisitions, contracts, purchases, suppliers, etc.,” said the children of President López Obrador.
The third case they discussed was the article – published by MCCI – which states that a friend of theirs bought a piece of land located near the Dos Bocas refinery at a price lower than the commercial value for its subsequent leasing. Both brothers pointed out that this publication is based on insinuations and assumptions, since they said that the purchase-sale and transaction for the acquisition of said land is not their responsibility.
“This is a transaction carried out by private individuals who have nothing to do with us or our family. (…) We are not the owners of the land, we had nothing to do with the operation in any way and we do not have front men or nominees as the note implies,” they said.
In the fourth case, the López Obrador brothers spoke about the audio recordings they released at MCCI and Latinus to link one of them to the alleged granting of a ballast mine in Oaxaca for his exploration and the purchase and sale of ballast for the works on the Mayan Train.
Both denied having intervened to benefit any business group in government works, and mentioned that this accusation is intended to slander, “which lacks foundation and its only intention is to discredit one of the most important works of the six-year term.”
