Mexico City / 05/28/2020 23:43:18
The Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit, through the Financial Intelligence Unit, froze the bank accounts of both Guillermo “Billy” Álvarez, president of the Cooperative Blue Crosslike his brother Alfredo Álvarez and Victor Garcés, who have held important positions in the dome of the cement factory.
According to Televisa News, they are investigated for the alleged crimes of organized crime and money laundering, every time Billy Alvarez would have made irregular movements per thousand 200 million pesos in different countries.
LEAGUE MX AND HACIENDA SIGNED AGREEMENT TO AVOID MONEY LAUNDERING
Although it was not specified whether the frozen accounts to the directors of Blue Cross they have something to do with the soccer team, it should be remembered that just last November the SHCP Financial Intelligence Unit and the Liga MX signed an agreement in the facilities of the Mexican Soccer Federation in Toluca, in which it was sought precisely to monitor the clubs so that they did not fall into illicit behaviors such as money laundering.
At that time, when the agreement was signed between Enrique Bonilla, president of the Liga MX, and Santiago Nieto, head of the Financial Intelligence Unit, the latter pointed out that the clubs were already being monitored to ensure that they did not have an illicit share of resources, although he did not want to delve into any particular issue.
SINCE SEPTEMBER 2019 THE FIU DETECTED THE POSSIBILITY OF MONEY LAUNDERING IN CLUBS
It was his own Santiago Nieto, who in September 2019, uncovered the issue of a risk of money laundering in Mexican soccer clubs, since from the federal government of the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador A National Risk Assessment was launched, since both soccer clubs and promoters were potential vulnerable entities of activities regulated by the Federal Law for the Prevention and Identification of Operations with Resources of Illicit Origin.
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