The former governor of Chihuahua, César Duarte Jáquez was linked to the process; charged with the crime of money laundering and the unofficial preventive detention against him was ratified, he will continue to be imprisoned in the Federal Center for Social Rehabilitation (Cefereso) No. 1, located in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico, better known as Penal del Altiplano.
Federal judge María Jazmín Ambriz López, attached to the Federal Criminal Justice Center of Almoloya de Juárez, set a period of six months for the complementary investigation, which expires on June 9.
During this period, both the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the team of lawyers of the former state president will gather the evidence to be presented in the criminal trial. According to the FGR’s accusation, the government of Chihuahua, headed by Duarte Jáquez, transferred between June 2011 and November 2014, 96.6 million pesos to two companies in which the governor served as the majority shareholder: Unión Regional Livestock Northern Division of the State of Chihuahua and Financial of the Northern Division, a Multiple Purpose Financial Company (Sofom).
Of this amount, the federal public ministry ensures that at least 73.9 million pesos (76% of the total) were diverted through the dispersion of money to people and companies through the Mexican financial system.
The FGR maintains the accusation against the former Chihuahua governor for his alleged intervention in “a money laundering scheme, in which he attempted to hide resources of illicit origin diverted from state coffers.”
Duarte Jáquez has been imprisoned for a week today in the Altiplano Prison, after the arrest warrant against him has been executed, issued since May 16, 2024 by a control judge.
Immediately after his capture in the capital of Chihuahua by elements of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), the federal ministerial authority reported that since October 4, 2024, it has processed authorization from the United States Government to prosecute Duarte Jáquez for a crime other than embezzlement and criminal association, but that this was granted until December 4.
“César ‘N’ had previously been detained on July 8, 2020 in Miami, Florida, and extradited to Mexico on June 2, 2022, for the crimes of embezzlement and criminal association, investigated in the state of Chihuahua,” the FGR reported.
The alleged person responsible for the commission of the crime of money laundering governed Chihuahua nominated by the PRI, a party that officially expelled him as its member since January 31, 2019 due to the corruption accusations that had been against him for two years before.
