By Chivis Martinez from Reforma
Borderland Beat
August 20, 2020
In the criminal complaint he filed on August 11 with the Attorney General's Office, Emilio Lozoya Austin accused 16 politicians and former senior officials, including former presidents of the Republic Enrique Peña, Felipe Calderón and Carlos Salinas of participating in different acts of corruption and influence peddling and of having caused damage to the national heritage due to their crimes.
It also tags Ricardo Anaya and
José Antonio Meade, two former presidential candidates who ran in 2018 against
Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
He also pointed to Peña and his
Secretary of the Treasury, Luis Videgaray, as heading up the corruption operations.
"Between Peña Nieto and
Videgaray there was an agreement to implement an organized apparatus of power
that -from the highest spheres of the regime- implemented what was necessary to
obtain benefits that affect the sovereignty of Mexico, subjecting it to
individuals and groups, nationals and foreigners," he said in the
statement surreptitiously posted on social media.
The FGR [federal attorney general office] denies leaking the
document.
The former director of Pemex
based his main allegations on millionaire bribes from Odebrecht and its Braskem
subsidiary, which were handed over to different officials from the previous two
six-year terms.
"By 2013, Odebrecht
already had the President (Peña) on his side. In 2013, the relationship between
Odebrecht and the Mexican State was not one of contracts, but one of power.
Odebrecht knew of their influence and subjection, he did not to lose it - nor
did I want to lose it - since I was actively participating in the country's
energy policy, "he denounced.
Between 2012 and 2014, Lozoya
assures that the Brazilians made him at least three important deliveries of
money, for amounts of 3 million 150 thousand dollars, 5 million 951 thousand
dollars and 84 million pesos.
The first installment served to
pay 1.6 million dollars to electoral consultants for the 2012 presidential
campaign and the remainder used for bribes on orders from Peña and Videgaray, for PAN legislators
to vote in favor of structural reforms.
Although he says that this
ended in an "extortion by the PAN political party" to obtain more
money and positions of power.
According to his complaint, the
money was delivered to Ricardo Anaya and his private secretary, Osiris
Hernández; also to former senators Ernesto Cordero, Jorge Luis Lavalle,
Salvador Vega, Francisco Domínguez and Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, the
latter two are currently Governors of Querétaro and Tamaulipas, respectively.
It states that the former
Secretary of Energy with Felipe Calderón, José Antonio Meade, and José Antonio
González Anaya, former director of Pemex, also received bribes.
He points out to former
President Calderón that he granted Braskem inexplicable conditions to install
the Ethylene XXI plant in Veracruz, which caused millions in losses to the
nation's heritage.
Yesterday Calderón, Ricardo
Anaya and José Antonio Meade, separately, denied Lozoya and accused the federal
government of carrying out an illegal and media handling of the case.
"It is an instrument of
revenge and political persecution," Calderón said.
"I am going to sue Emilio
Lozoya for moral damages ... I am certain that there is no basis for the
infamous lie," Anaya said.
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