Owns two upscale houses in Houston and has several luxury cars, including a 2012 Rolls-Royce Ghost
Want to live a life of luxury? Get a Mexican government official’s job.
ANOTHER CASE OF CORRUPTION? TIJUANA’S BORDER ADMINISTRATOR LIVES IN LUXURIOUS NEIGHBORHOOD IN HOUSTON, TEXAS
By Jorge Ramos, Enviado Otero and Silvia Otero
El Universal
June 17, 2012
Houston – Alejandro Amadeo Gonzalez Guilbot, Central Administrator of the Tijuana´s Customs Office, receives a monthly pay of 104,113 Mexican Pesos - roughly $8 thousand. His life, however, is more like that of a millionaire than a public employee.
Gonzalez Guilbot owns two homes in Houston, Texas worth close to $1 million and several vehicles valued at about $600 thousand, including a 2012 Rolls-Royce Ghost.
This employee of the Mexican Internal Revenue Service (Secretaria de Hacienda) also appears as the owner of two businesses in the Houston area.
Gonzalez Guilbot has been a public servant for almost two decades. In 1994 he was the director of the preventive prison known as “El Torito”; from 1995 to 1998, director of the Reclusorio Sur prison in Mexico City; in 1999 he worked as the assistant manager in the International Airport of Mexico City.
From 2001 to 2003 he worked for the Mexican presidency under the Citizen Attention Directorate; from June 2003 to 2006 he worked for PEMEX-in PMI, Houston-, but he sued PEMEX, who ended up paying him 783 thousand Mexican Pesos - about $63 thousand.
It wasn´t until 2011 when he reappeared as a public servant working for SAT(Servicio de Administracion Tributaria-Internal Revenue Service) as the Regional Administrator for the Evaluation of the North Pacific. Since this past March 16 he is the Central Administrator in the Tijuana Customs Office under Enrique Peña Nieto´s office.
The Federal official is in charge of one of the biggest entry points between Mexico and USA, with about 10 thousand operations daily. His monthly income of little more than $8 thousand marks a sharp contrast with his home in Wynden Estates, in a closed street he shares with 7 neighbors.
Records in the Property and Tax Office in Harris County, Texas, show the acquisition by Gonzalez Guilbot of a house located in 111 N Wynden Estates Ct., Houston valued at $896,453; this transaction took place in January 2006.
There´s another home registered in the Texas Government records under Guilbot Alejandro Amadeo G.; the home is located at 8527 Atascocita Lake Way, Humble TX. This one is valued at $162,187.
In 2004 the public servant bought a Cadillac Escalade Luxury Edition worth about $52 thousand; the next year he registered a Nissan Altima SL; and in December 2006 he bought a 2007 Mercedes-Benz S550 worth more than $95 thousand.
The list of vehicles owned by Tijuana´s Border Administrator includes a 2009 Lexus LS 460 worth $75 thousand. He also owns a 2007 BMW X3 bought in January 2010.
In June 2012 he bought a 2013 Rolls-Royce Ghost worth more than $325 thousand; that same year he bought a Lexus LX 570 worth close to $85 thousand.
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