Gustavo Castillo
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, December 14, 2025, p. 5
The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) pointed out that the investigation against María Amparo Casar and two former officials of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) “was prosecuted in the month of September and not recently, as some versions have erroneously indicated”, that is, during the administration of Alejandro Gertz Manero, and that “it is absolutely false that this institution works by order, as has been maliciously pointed out in some publications on social networks.”
The Day announced that the Federal Public Ministry prosecuted an investigation folder in which Casar and two former Pemex officials are named “for their probable intervention in the commission of the act indicated in the law as a crime of illicit use of powers and powers”, through which she obtained a lifetime pension of 125 thousand pesos per month from the oil company after the suicide of her husband, Carlos Fernando Márquez Padilla, on October 7, 2004.
The hearing is scheduled for next Tuesday and according to documents from the Judicial Branch of the Federation (PJF), the file indicates that Casar herself, Miguel Ángel Feijóo and Teresa Maldonado Ordóñez were summoned to appear, who in 2004 held the positions of manager of Financial Administration and deputy manager of Financial Resources, respectively, at Pemex.
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“The #FGR works to carry out investigations within the framework of the law, without bias of any kind other than the legal framework, with the aim of respecting the rights of all people. It is absolutely false that this institution works by order.”
another change
As part of the restructuring that the agency is experiencing, tomorrow, Monday, the departure of Adriana Campos López will be formalized, who served as head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Internal Affairs during the administration of Alejandro Gertz Manero.
Campos López joined today’s FGR since 2016, when the then attorney Arely Gómez appointed her head of the General Inspectorate in the ministerial institution. At the close of this edition, it had not been announced who would replace her in the specialized prosecutor’s office, which has more than 1,500 investigations open for acts that are considered administrative offenses or matters that require criminal investigations.
During her stay at the FGR, she held, among other positions, general director of Legal Affairs and advisor to the attorney general.
