Rosario Robles Berlanga, former head of the secretariats of Social Development and Territorial and Urban Agrarian Development (Sedesol and Sedatu, respectively), celebrates this Thursday a year confined within the prison of Santa Martha Acatitla, of the Iztapalapa mayor’s office, in Mexico City.
The former official was linked to the process for improper exercise of public service and is also noted to participate in the case of the so-called “master scam”, an investigation that indicates how more than 800 million pesos would have been diverted. Then in Unotv.com We will tell you some of the key moments of his case.
In September 2018, Before having formally filed complaints against him, and a few months after the end of the administration of former President Enrique Peña Nieto, Rosario Robles, still in his duties as head of Sedatu, He said that he had nothing to fear and that he did not need anyone’s forgiveness (referring to then-president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador).
“(I have been told) that the president-elect will not forgive me, I do not need anyone’s forgiveness”,
Robles assured.
He Aug 13, 2019 was placed in justified preventive detention and transferred to the prison of Santa Martha.
Before that, the defense of Rosario Robles offered payment for more than 60 thousand steps to avoid preventive detention and Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) announced the freezing of their accounts.
In addition, the Prosecutor’s Office presented to the Federal Public Ministry evidence on the existence of 27 agreements that add up to 5 thousand 73 million 358 thousand pesos diverted by officials of Sedesol and Sedatu when Robles Berlanga headed these dependencies. Justice released four names that appeared in those agreements:
- Jose Antonio Orozco Martinez
- Maria del Carmen Gutierrez Medina
- Marco Salvador Ibarra Infante
- Armando Saldaña Flores
On September 18, 2019, the Secretariat of the Public Function (SFP) announced the 10-year disqualification of the ex-server to perform jobs, positions or commissions in the federal public service.
On October 22, 2019, Judge Felipe de Jesús Delgadillo reaffirmed the preventive prison for Rosario Robles, so it was decided that the prison of Santa Martha Acatitla. The decision was made “For fear of escape.”
He December 3 of that same year, the Investigative Section of the Chamber of Deputies formally notified the former Secretary of Social Development (Sedesol), Rosario Robles Berlanga, on the formal initiation of a Political Trial procedure against her.
Three days later, the Second District Court of Amparo in Criminal Matters denied the suspension of plane in the guarantee trial filed by the former Secretary of Social Development, Rosario Robles, with whom he sought to reverse the informal preventive detention of which he was subjected.
He March 19, 2020, the Chamber of Deputies endorsed the impeachment against Rosario Robles Berlanga, ex-holder of the Ministry of Social Development in Mexico (Sedesol) and Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (checked) during the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto.
With 270 votes in favor, zero against and no abstentions, the deputies decided to accuse the Senate of the Republic former federal official for various crimes committed in the federal public administration during the period of December 1 2012 to November 30, 2018.
This Thursday he served a year in prison and made it known through his social networks, because although he is deprived of his freedom, his account is very active. Twitter.
