New blow comes in the Cruz Azul case

The federal government is preparing a new coup around the Cruz Azul scandal. First-rate sources confirm to me that for several months, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Ministry of Finance has been drawing a matrix of companies, some real and other ghosts, to which money from the Cement Cooperative of irregular way.

There are many transfers and many individuals, according to the information I had access to, and the researchers are finishing to balance all the financial movements. The crimes that could be found include tax evasion and operations with illicit resources, that is, money laundering.

Until now, they let me know, they have not “tied up” that Guillermo “Billy” Álvarez, his brother Alfredo and his brother-in-law Víctor Garcés, the three Cruz-Azul managers who were part of the first, are directly involved in this network of companies and money. complaint.

This would be a second floor of that first complaint, that first investigation that I revealed to him in December of last year in these Reporter Stories and that became official a couple of months ago.

In December 2019, when I announced in this column what was to come, Guillermo Álvarez’s virulent response included two attacks: in several interviews he said that what I had published here was not true and he also filed a complaint against me.

In those we were walking when the pandemic came, and in the middle of it, the reality reached it: at the end of May, the FIU froze the accounts of “Billy” Álvarez. Then came a thaw so that the Cooperative could continue operating and employees’ salaries were not trapped as victims of the legal dispute between the government and the manager.

The same sources tell me that there is still no date for the presentation of the second file – the one that has to do with the network of companies linked to the money of the Cooperative – but that are in the final stretch of the investigation.

The handling of this case has also been the cause of a dispute within the government of the nicknamed “4T”, between the Attorney General of the Republic, Alejandro Gertz Manero, and the head of the UIF, Santiago Nieto.

SACAMORBOS

“Bottled poison,” they tell him now. But in 2019, President López Obrador celebrated and boasted of Coca-Cola and Pepsi investments as a sign of confidence in his government. In 2003, as head of government of the then Federal District, he expropriated land to give to the cooperative for another soft drink: Boing. The issue of expropriation reached the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, which reversed López Obrador’s decision. The vote was 10-1 against AMLO. Do you know whose only vote in favor it garnered? From the then Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero.

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