Alonso Urrutia and Arturo Sanchez
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, June 26, 2024, p. 4
The Undersecretary of Public Security, Luis Rodríguez Bucio, denounced inexplicable delays in the Nuevo León Justice Council in trials concerning tax crimes. With the argument of excessive workload, licenses of judges or adjustment of agendas, hearings in these cases are postponed for up to 10 months in legal processes that involve possible tax evasion that totals 3,228 million pesos.
He cited as an extreme example a hearing scheduled for May of this year that was rescheduled for April 2025. And he added: in a case that involves an amount of 1,854 million pesos of alleged tax crimes (criminal case 633/2022), the hearing Originally set for August 2022, it has been deferred four times; In case 332/2024, the requested hearing was granted seven months after it was requested in a trial that refers to tax evasion for 867 million pesos.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated that These files from the courts of Nuevo León all have to do with tax fraud, those at the top not wanting to pay taxes and, with pure chicanery, with cheating lawyers
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On the other hand, the performance of Judge María del Refugio Castañeda Guillén was evidenced in the presidential conference, who ordered modifications to the precautionary measures in favor of Luis ‘N’, alias The Coins. He is the son of José Antonio, alias The Brown, and two more accomplices. They were arrested on January 7, 2024 by the Guanajuato prosecutor’s office with the support of the Ministry of Public Security.
Rodríguez Bucio explained that “the judge dispensed with justified preventive detention considering that, although Luis Antonio presented a high risk of abduction, it was not high enough to justify preventive detention; She also dismissed the fact that Luis Antonio is the son of José Antonio ‘N’, alias The Brown”. She pointed out that the Federal Center for Social Rehabilitation took 24 hours more than the 24 that the judge had imposed to verify if there was no other complaint against her, but in the end she had to be released.
When elaborating on the Nuevo León Justice Council, Rodríguez Bucio declared that Obstacles to the administration of justice are observed. It has been observed that this center fails to fulfill its obligation to provide justice in matters that involve billions of pesos in fiscal damages.
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He assured that this situation has generated a series of significant obstacles in the judicial process, affecting the prompt and effective resolution of the cases. It is considered that justice has not been served because the initial hearings and oral trial have suffered significant delays, violating the right to expeditious justice, as guaranteed by the Constitution and the National Code of Criminal Procedures.
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