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In the current administration, headed by the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, there is suspicion of a political-financial alliance that constitutes almost the entire network of systematic corruption that currently affects the country, and that did not cease to strengthen in the six years that the last government lasted: the relationship Enrique Peña Nieto-Salinas de Gortari.
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That is the connection that the López Obrador team intends to reach through investigations promoted by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR). So far, there are two key files.
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The first is that of former director of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Emilio Lozoya Austin, who in his attempt to evade the arrest warrants that weigh against him and his family desperately seeks to demonstrate all the ins and outs that make up Pemex’s corruption system. “I did everything by direct orders from my boss the president”, The former official once said.
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The second case is that of Genaro García Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security who could be sentenced in the United States, for being the official who went through and connected the last three sexenios, and who also collaborated with a business design from power over the issue of public safety.
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According to the investigation, cited by the columnist Salvador Garcia Soto, everything began to take shape in the first years of the sexennium of Enrique Peña Nieto, when the former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari he demanded the reciprocity of his favors for the support and advice he gave him to come to power.
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In response, Peña Nieto awarded him two strategic sectors and with fruitful possibilities of eventually becoming big business: the energy sector and the construction of infrastructure for public safety.
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If in the oil field Emilio Lozoya It was the manager placed by Salinas himself to handle all Pemex contracts, with their respective businesses and commissions, on the issue of security García Luna was the one who designed the construction models for prisoners granted to large businessmen who, in exchange for a contract millionaire of the federal government, paid a large commission that was charged and distributed by Salinas and Peña Nieto.
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There are testimonies of businessmen who participated in this scheme, and who affirmed that to obtain any contract in the oil or security field, it was necessary to have the endorsement of Salinas de Gortari, who supposedly had to go to see personally and negotiate with him the terms to be considered in public contracts.
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According to García Soto, a source revealed the existence of at least 7 inmates assigned for its construction and operation to large Mexican businessmen, some of them owners of renowned companies (such as media). Each contract for a prisoner was about 7,000,000 of pesos approximately, and the business favored all parties: the entrepreneur earned thanks to the support of the government and the federal budget that allowed him to easily obtain loans from large banks to finance the work. Salinas and Peña Nieto, for their part, received large commissions for their collaboration.
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The source of García Soto said that during the process of “negotiations” he met several times with Salinas, and when everything was ready he used to say in code: “The subject is ready, do not forget to send the vehicle” With the latter, he was referring to the money that was finally distributed between the two great beneficiaries of this corruption scheme at the highest level.
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Genaro García Luna is currently negotiating not to plead guilty in exchange for giving all the information he has to uncover the sewer of corruption that for years prevailed in the political spectrum of Mexico.
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Meanwhile, in Mexico the FIU and the FGR collect testimonies from entrepreneurs who are willing to testify.
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