The National Action Party (PAN) filed a complaint with the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) for “alleged conflict of interest” and “possible influence peddling” of José Ramón López Beltrán, son of the president of Mexico.
The complaint, quotes the 17-page text, is “against who or who are responsible for the behaviors that are narrated in this document, in terms of the applicable criminal legislation.”
Addressed to María de la Luz Mijangos Borja, head of the FGR Specialized Prosecutor for combating corruption, the complaint states that the “elements, facts and circumstances” narrated in it “seen as a whole could result in crimes before the perfection of the presumed conflict of interest, possible influence peddling before what is noticed as a benefit obtained by the family of the highest official of the Mexican government, with high officials of oil industries with current contractual relations with the Mexican government, as well as other illicit whose accreditation and legal qualification are faculties of the Public Ministry”.
“The foregoing implies the need for (the) Attorney General of the Republic, with the corresponding help of the Mexican authorities as well as international legal assistance with the authorities of the United States, to initiate an investigation of the facts in order to clarify fully each of the extremes and, where appropriate, impute responsibility to those and/or those involved in any act constituting a crime and, if appropriate, manage the comprehensive repair of the damage.
Basis for appeal
The brief states that “according to the journalist Raúl Olmos, one of the authors of the investigation” published last week by the organization Mexicanos Unidos contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad and the portal Latinus, “days after the US oil company Baker Hughes obtained a contract to provide oil services to Pemex, José Ramón López Beltrán and his partner, Carolyn Adams, moved to the mansion in Houston, Texas, owned by a senior executive of the firm, who had direct interference in contracting issues in the Foreign”.
As part of the reported facts, it is detailed that “said property was identified as the address of Carolyn Adams since September 2019, when the property was registered as property of Keith L. Schilling, who was a senior executive of Baker Hughes, an oil company which has current contracts with the López Obrador government for more than 151 million dollars in works for Pemex.
And it completes: “Except for an error of appreciation on our part in the face of the information made public, it turns out that the property that was found in use by the married couple made up of C. José Ramón López Beltrán and C. Carolyn Adams, was in the name of Keith L. Schilling, who had a senior position in the Baker Hughes oil company, precisely a short time after a contract had been signed, which, presumably, could have derived from a payment or gift in favor of the son of the President of the Republic ”.
