Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday March 10, 2023, p. 6
The lawyer José Antonio Rico Rico, linked to Juan Collado, was sentenced for the crime of operations with resources of illegal origin.
Yesterday (Wednesday), by the way, a sentence was achieved for operations with resources of illicit origin (against Rico Rico), which must be noted in the historical annals of Mexico, because these things are not frequent
said the head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Pablo Gómez, when participating this Thursday in the morning conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
He added that on Monday the judge will determine the time of sanction as part of the sentence. He said that criminal responsibility was found in the defendant, arrested in September 2019 in San Luis Potosí, for the same case with which Collado was apprehended a couple of months earlier. Both are accused of money laundering and organized crime, as they are accused of being part of a group that simulated the sale of the Caja Libertad building in Querétaro for 156 million pesos, of which Rico Rico would have received 24 million.
