Eduardo Murillo
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday March 7, 2023, p. 13
The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) and the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) separately challenged the ruling of Judge Roberto Omar Paredes Gorostieta Femat, who on February 24 acquitted former Secretary of State Rosario Robles Berlanga of the crime improper exercise of public service. Both agencies agree that the judge ignored evidence that directly linked the former official to the illicit acts known as the master scam.
Both appeals have already been delivered to the Federal Judiciary, as confirmed by judicial officials, and it is expected that they will be assigned to the corresponding collegiate court in criminal matters, so that the magistrates can review whether or not the judge acted in accordance with the law.
The appealed ruling was issued by Judge Paredes in compliance with an amparo ruling issued by the ninth criminal collegiate court, based in Mexico City, which ordered him to review the process against Robles. Her determination exonerated the former official from the charges and released her from the precautionary measures that had been ordered, which included the prohibition to leave the country, the insurance of her passport and the obligation to appear periodically before the Public Ministry. Federal.
Both the ASF and the FGR point out that the judge ignored the indications that would show that Robles Berlanga was not only omissive, but that he had a direct and active participation in the master scam, which caused losses to the country’s finances for more than 5 thousand 73 millions of pesos.
In addition to the legal challenge of the ruling, the FGR also announced that it opened an investigation file against Judge Paredes and that it filed a complaint with the Federal Judicial Council (CJF).
From the day of the sentence, the prosecutor’s office stated that it would proceed against the justice provider, since it considered that he is acting against the law and against the records of the records; reason for which not only the administrative complaint is initiated, but also the corresponding criminal procedure
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Regardless of the appeal of the ruling, the resolution of the complaint before the CJF is pending, which must be analyzed by its Disciplinary Commission, headed by magistrate Lilia Mónica López Benítez and made up of magistrates Alejandro Sergio González Bernabé and Sergio Javier Molina Martínez .
