Federal judge rejects Lavalle’s request to investigate Caraveo Opengo’s finances
Gustavo Castillo Garcia
Newspaper La Jornada
Sunday April 3, 2022, p. eleven
A federal judge flatly rejected a request made by the PAN member and former senator of the Republic, Jorge Luis Lavalle, for the Federal Public Ministry to investigate the financial movements carried out by Jesús Caraveo Opengo, who –according to the government version– was in charge of give bribes to legislators to approve the energy reform during the government of Enrique Peña Nieto.
This is a setback for the former legislator, imprisoned in the North Prison, since by not investigating the finances of Caraveo Opengo, he has no possibility of demonstrating whether his former collaborator, turned prosecution witness, benefited from the resources provided by Emilio Lozoya Austin as part of the bribes given by the Odebrecht company.
The second district court in amparo matters, based in Mexico City, dismissed the request for amparo filed by the defense of the PAN member and in its resolution established that the act claimed does not generate any affectation to the legal sphere of the complainant, by virtue of the fact that it is not an act that is impossible to repair
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Based on the list of agreements, the judge determined that In the case of acts issued in the trial, the indirect amparo only proceeds when they have an execution on people that is impossible to repair, that is, their consequences are likely to immediately affect any of the fundamental rights.
and, in this case, the guarantees of former senator Lavalle are not violated.
Likewise, it highlights that in March 2021, Judge Marco Antonio Fuerte Tapia presided over a hearing where Lavalle requested that the Public Ministry agent request financial data from Caraveo Opengo, one of the prosecution witnesses provided by the former director of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya Austin, to prove that resources from the Odebrecht company were delivered between 2013 and 2015 to legislators of various parties to approve the energy reform.
