After EL UNIVERSAL revealed this Thursday that the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) investigates Pedro Joaquín Coldwell and Enrique Ochoa Reza, former PRI leaders, and those who were part of the Board of Directors of Pemex when the Agro Nitrogrenados plant was purchased, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that the minutes of this body are reliable evidence of how its members voted and will serve to determine who acted criminally in this purchase.
At a press conference from the facilities of the 60th Infantry Battalion and accompanied by Governor Claudia Pavlovich, the head of the Federal Executive called on the Attorney General of the Republic to conclude the investigation on Emilio Lozoya, former director of Pemex.
“They have to carry out the investigation and above all, end the process of reporting Mr. Lozoya, who declares everything that happened. He is a first-rate witness, because he was director of Pemex, then he was a member of the Board of Directors of Pemex, and in addition, in all the boards of directors of public companies minutes are drawn up, there is an agenda, the intervention of each director is noted and the position of each director is noted and in the end it is voted on.
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“And it is known from the minutes, which must exist, who voted in favor and who voted against. In this case, I understand that everyone voted in favor, but there were also those who voted against, especially in the minutes where it should appear. why they didn’t agree. “
Today, El Gran Diario de México reports that the FGR is investigating all the members of the Pemex Board of Directors for the irregular purchase of the Agro Nitrogenados plant, including two former PRI leaders, Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, who was Secretary of Energy and president counselor of the Board of Directors of Pemex, and Enrique Ochoa Reza, at that time undersecretary of Hydrocarbons of the Secretariat of Energy.
The president stressed that the minutes of the Pemex Board of Directors are basic information and it is official.
“They cannot say that it is not a proof that helps, it is reliable. Only that the minutes did not exist, they must be both in Pemex, as in the Ministry of Energy, and they must be in the file. Everything must be known, so this case Mr. Lozoya’s is very important, because it has many implications. “
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He urged that the FGR conclude the case of Emilio Lozoya as soon as possible, since he pointed out that his government is interested in recovering “everything that is possible to recover what has been stolen, to return to the people what has been stolen, it is also to collect what is the patrimony of the Mexicans.
In this sense, President López Obrador pointed out that the behavior of officials has to be analyzed, because, he accused, that in past administrations “the fashion was created to include apparently independent citizens in all the councils of administration with the purpose of achieve greater transparency and that there was no corruption, but in the end in many cases they were not, others if they complied with acting with rectitude “.
“In this case, the criminal association between officials and businessmen will be revealed, because he is not just the public official, he is also the so-called” businessman “, because during the neoliberal period the truth is that those who made their August did not they were strictly businessmen, but influence peddlers. “
López Obrador pointed out that a true businessman acts with rectitude, invests, generates jobs, pays taxes, has a utility in accordance with the law, “but what proliferated in the neoliberal period were the influencers who had no specialty and knowledge, but They had handles, relationships, and it is not general, it cannot be applied to a clean slate. “
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