They request a new imputation hearing against lawyers close to Julio Scherer Ibarra
Gustavo Castillo and Cesar Arellano
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday April 30, 2022, p. 14
The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) once again requested that the Federal Judicial Power (PJF) hold the initial hearing against four litigants close to Julio Scherer Ibarra, former legal adviser to the Federal Executive Power, and charge them again of criminal association, influence peddling, operations with resources of illicit origin and extortion.
Meanwhile, the FGR itself processes two complaints against the head of the institution, Alejandro Gertz Manero, and some members of the Public Ministry for improper exercise of public service and other crimes, as well as a request to analyze whether irregularities were committed when integrate the investigation folder with which the initial hearing was requested against the lawyers Juan Antonio Araujo Riva Palacio, César Omar González Hernández, Isaac Pérez Rodríguez and David Gómez Arnau.
These four litigants were denounced by the lawyer Juan Collado Mocelo for having extorted him to give them 10 million pesos in cash and one and a half million dollars to obtain, with the alleged support of Julio Scherer, their freedom, since since July 2019 faces several criminal proceedings.
According to information obtained from ministerial officials and the PJF, the file that was initially put to the consideration of Judge José Rivas González, based in the North Prison, has now been prosecuted so that a justice official based in the Prison can hear the accusations. South prison.
So far, the file has not been assigned to any judge nor has the initial hearing been summoned in which the representatives of the FGR will request the new link to the process.
The FGR tried to get Judge Rivas González to decree precautionary measures against the four litigants, but they managed to postpone the hearing on three occasions, and in the last proceeding, held on April 7, the agents of the Public Ministry requested the postponement of the case before the absence of the accused.
