Gustavo Castillo Garcia
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, March 31, 2022, p. 6
Through her daughter, Mariana Moguel, Rosario Robles Berlanga, former head of the Secretaries of Social Development (Sedesol) and Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu), released a letter stating that the Attorney General of the Republic, Alejandro Gertz Manero, convinced President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Julio Scherer Ibarra, former legal adviser to the Executive Branch, “that the only way to reach bigger fish was to put pressure on me with jail.
That’s where my fate was decided. A whole machine was assembled, including the judge/sober surname Padierna, to trap me in these walls.
In a press conference held in front of the National Palace, Mariana Moguel spread the letter from Robles, imprisoned in Santa Martha Acatitla since August 2019.
In the text, the former federal official states that the lawyer Juan Araujo – one of the litigants accused of being part of a corruption network in combination with Julio Scherer – negotiated with the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic (FGR) to grant criteria of opportunity to Emilio Zebadúa.
Robles said that he became hostage, in addition to being the only one (by the way, a woman) deprived of her liberty due to the alleged triangulation of resources to the universities (which has not been proven so far; on the contrary, this hypothesis has suffered serious setbacks in the administrative court)
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According to the accused of improper exercise of functions and causing damage to the treasury for more than 5 billion pesos, “this is confirmed by the statements of prosecutor Gertz in a conference given on August 12, 2020 at El Colegio de México . There he pointed out that she would be held until she decided to ‘cooperate’, as Emilio Lozoya had done”.
