Lozoya’s lawyer and defender, Miguel ontiveros alonsoannounced that the former director of Pemex offers the authorities more than 200 million pesos to sign the agreement to repair the damage in the Odebrecht case.
Ontiveros Alonso insisted before the media that during the hearing on Monday the 13th it will be requested that the damage be repaired.
Lozoya’s hearing began this Friday and took place for more than seven hours, but it was postponed for follow-up until this Monday at 2:00 p.m., Mexico City time. Lozoya can still reach the agreement but for now he has not reached it due to time.
On Friday, during Lozoya’s appearance before the prison judge of the North Prison, the judge ruled out three fundamental pieces of evidence from the FGR related to information from bank accounts in tax havens in Switzerland of the former director of the Mexican oil company, considering that the secret was violated. banking.
With this payment, Lozoya and his legal team sought to adhere to a criterion of opportunity and avoid criminal charges for money laundering, bribery and criminal association in a trial and a minimum sentence of 39 years in prison requested by the FGR.
Emilio Lozoya is still under trial for two charges of corruption. One, regarding the overpriced acquisition of the Agronitrogenados plant, which was acquired from businessman Alonso Ancira, owner of Altos Hornos de México, and for which it is presumed that he received bribes.
He also has the measure of preventive detention in the process that is being followed for allegedly having received at least 10.5 million dollars in bribes from the Brazilian company Odebrecht, when he was part of Enrique Peña Nieto’s campaign team and later during his presidency. between the years 2012-2018.
