On June 6, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reported that Emilio Lozoya Austin had not complied with the repair of the damage in the Odebrecht and Agronitrogenados cases.
In the Odebrecht case, the procedure continues without any procedural benefit for the former official, the authority detailed.
Due to the Agronitrogenados case, Lozoya has assets subject to domain forfeiture seized. “The criminal procedure continues without any procedural benefit.”
“In the case of a tax debt of Emilio, for payment of taxes, said payment has been managed through the Tax Attorney of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, a situation that is in process. This payment of taxes has no link of any nature, or connection of any kind with the two previous cases”, detailed the FGR.
Emilio Lozoya Austin was arrested in a residential area with high purchasing power in Malaga, Spain, in February 2020.
After being extradited, following the criteria of opportunity, he faced a process for money laundering, criminal association and bribery from his home in Mexico City.
The crimes of which he is accused are related to alleged bribes from Odebrecht in exchange for contracts and the purchase of a scrap plant from Altos Hornos de México, which caused damage to the treasury.
While following his process from home, little was known about him, at least until Saturday, October 9, 2021, when photos circulated while he ate at a restaurant in Mexico City in the company of four other people, which happened one week. after he confirmed before the FGR his statement against other former Mexican officials in the Odebrecht case.
On the afternoon of Wednesday, November 3 of that year, a federal judge ordered preventive detention at the request of the FGR, which alleged that the former official used the criterion of opportunity to delay the process against him.