He points to Julio Scherer and relatives
In February of this year, from prison, Juan Collado denounced before the FGR the former legal adviser of the Presidency, Julio Scherer Ibarra, three lawyers and a financial operator for extortion, criminal association, money laundering and influence peddling.
According to the newspaper Reform Collado Mocelo accused that a group of lawyers linked to the former federal official offered him to negotiate a reparation agreement of 2,000 million pesos with the FGR, in addition to asking him to sell Caja Libertad to release him in the process he faces for money laundering and organized crime.
“Freedom for freedom,” the lawyer Juan Antonio Araujo would have told him, according to the complaint. The proposal was to sell it to Banco Afirme, owned by Julio Villarreal Guajardo, a banking businessman supposedly close to the then legal adviser to the Presidency.
The firm involved is Araujo, González, Peimbert, Robledo & Carrancá (AGPR&C), and the lawyers listed in the complaint are Juan Antonio Araujo Rivapalacio, César Omar González Hernández, Isaac Pérez Rodríguez and David Gómez Arnau.
Reform He also revealed a letter dated December 2020, in which Juan Collado asked President López Obrador that the then Legal Counsel, Julio Scherer Ibarra, be the intermediary to negotiate a reparation process.
“We are aware of the legal and management capacities that the Federal Public Administration develops, so we have great faith that the license Julio Scherer Ibarra can be the channel, if you give your consent, to find an alternative legal form to solve the various processes that I have against me,” says the letter addressed to the federal president.
