The judge of the Federal Criminal Justice Center of the North Prison, Marco Antonio Fuerte Tapia, granted the PAN member the benefit of provisional release with the wearing of an electronic bracelet that allows federal authorities to monitor his location 24 hours a day.
In addition to the electronic device, the judge also imposed other conditions such as the prohibition to leave the country and the periodic monthly presentation to the precautionary measures unit.
The precautionary measure of justified preventive detention was modified after the judge considered the health problems of the former legislator.
Lavalle Maury was arrested on March 9, 2021 after he went to the North Prison to unburden an element of evidence during his initial hearing.
On April 13 of that same year, the former senator was linked to the process for the crimes of money laundering, bribery and criminal association.
The accusations against Lavalle derived from the complaint filed by Lozoya, who pointed out officials and former officials for corruption in the Odebrecht case.
In the complaint, the former director of Pemex accused former presidents Carlos Salinas, Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto, as well as former presidential candidates José Antonio Meade and Ricardo Anaya, of being involved in Odebrecht’s operations in Mexico and the alleged delivery of bribes to support the energy reform.
Lavalle was the first and only politician who has so far been prosecuted for investigations stemming from the complaint filed by the former director of Pemex.
The former director of Pemex accused Lavalle of being one of the senators who received bribes from the construction company Odebrecht with the purpose of approving structural reforms, particularly energy reforms.
Although Lozoya did not specify the sum of the alleged bribe in the complaint, a former collaborator of Lavalle, Rafael Caraveo, former technical secretary of the Senate Administration Commission, accused the former legislator of receiving at least 25 million pesos.
