According to estimates, once the work was completed, the house would reach a price of up to 50 million pesos, which probably does not correspond to its income.
“A investigation folder has begun, it is what I can say, and it is in the integration phase. And as I have commented a moment ago, the presumption of innocence applies to all citizens. We will give the opportunity to provide the elements of one and another,” said the prosecutor this Friday to the local press.
He explained that the case has fallen to the Prosecutor’s Office specialized in fighting corruption.
Zavala Zúñiga has denied the construction of the mansion. Although he acknowledged that he does have the land, he said that the work was limited to a cistern and its foundations.
“I allow myself to point out that the information that has been circulating is a lie, there is no property, as indicated. It is a land where it only has a cistern and foundations. It was declared in a timely manner everything that the authorities demand,” he said on July 29.
From the fact that the case went viral, the governor of Morelos, Margarita González Saravia, announced Monday that the official would be separated from her position. However, he said that this was due to an institutional reorganization.
He added that she offered a Undersecretariat to the official, but she rejected the position to finalize her retirement.
So Zavala Zúñiga will be in charge of the Ministry of Finance until August 15.
