Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia
The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, July 19, 2024, p. 3
Thirteen major taxpayers owe the treasury nearly 130 billion pesos, but judges have for months blocked the processing of complaints filed with the judiciary to recover them, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported.
As he announced on Wednesday, in his morning press conference yesterday the president announced cases of White-collar criminals who don’t pay taxes and judges don’t give court dates
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He did not reveal the corporate names of the debtors, they know who they are
However, he explained that the delay caused by the judges between the presentation of the complaints and the appointment for the first hearing is on average 159 days.
The Criminal Procedure Code requires the Judiciary to hold the initial hearing within a maximum of 15 days from the request for judicialization by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
López Obrador presented a graph with some details of these cases that his administration describes as tax evasion
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The case with the largest debt to the public treasury is that of an air transportation company, for an amount of 33 thousand 495 million pesos. This must be the budget of a state, what that company owes
the president emphasized.
He added that the FGR requested the judicialization of the case on October 3, 2022, and the Judiciary granted the initial hearing 195 days later, on April 16, 2023.
A soft drink company owes 22,701 million pesos and the judges took 210 days to call a hearing.
A scrap metal company has not paid the treasury 19,860 million pesos. The case reached the Judiciary on August 9, 2022 and, to date, 709 days later, there is no date for a hearing.
A cement company has a debt of 15,408 million pesos; a mining company, another, of 11,420 million; an accounting, legal and payroll firm owes 7,645 million and another in the same line of business owes 1,780 million.
The President also pointed out the debt of an oil company of 5.46 billion; a food company that has not settled 1.973 billion; a gas station company owes 1.391 billion; a soccer team, 1.271 billion, and a department store chain totals 1.088 billion.
In response to this, the President questioned: How can the Judiciary be fine like this? Who does it work for? It’s like the minister we saw, who suddenly receives a file, requests it and saves it (the tax debt of businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego). And where is the quick and expeditious justice? This has to do with the public treasury, it is the money of the people of Mexico. We will continue to ask the Judiciary to resolve
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