By Isabella González
The Public Function Secretary (SFP) asked the Internal Control Body of the Ministry of Foreign Relations investigate an alleged “clandestine vaccination”Reported to the federal agency in early December.
According to official letter SFCC / 200/273/2020, dated December 18, 2020, on December 5, the Undersecretariat for Control and Combating Corruption received a complaint against the Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Martha Delgado, already Javier Jileta, former general director of Liaison with Civil Society Organizations, for giving access to doses of the vaccine from the Chinese pharmaceutical CanSino to civil servants of the public administration.
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He Undersecretary of Public Function, Roberto Salcedo, indicates in the official letter that the official and the former official have been accused of privileging vaccination of various people in the offices of Epic Research, the company that is carrying out the phase 3 of the clinical trial of the Chinese vaccine in Mexico since the beginning of November.
“They also point out that Martha Delgado, undersecretary in the Ministry of Foreign Relations, and Javier Jileta have incurred in bribery, misuse of information, abuse of functions, etc. By giving access to vaccines (not placebo) not authorized by Cofepris to various officials within the public administration and convert that property into unauthorized vaccination center”, Explains Salcedo.
Jileta resigned from his position as general director for Liaison with Civil Society Organizations, after two years working at the Foreign Ministry, on December 29, 10 days after the SFP asked the Foreign Ministry to investigate the complaint.
By virtue of presumed administrative misconduct, the SFP notified the complaint to the head of the OIC, Octavio Díaz García de León, so that he could proceed to investigate the complaint.
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The Secretary of Foreign Relations was responsible for CanSino do phase 3 of the clinical trial of your vaccine in Mexico, as well as other pharmaceutical companies such as Novavax.
The Mexican government has sought 10,000 volunteers in the country for the clinical trial of the Chinese vaccine, which follows a mirror protocol, that is, 50% of the volunteers are given a placebo and the other half the vaccine, and even At the end of the clinical trial, in November 2021, it will be known to whom what was applied.
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