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For the accusing body of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto played a central role in the case Odebrecht, local media reported on Thursday.
According to information published by the Mexican newspapers El Universal and Reforma, based on an alleged request for an arrest warrant against Luis Videgaray, former Secretary of Finance and Foreign Affairs of Mexico, which was returned, the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) considers that Peña Nieto committed the crimes using Videgaray and also Emilio Lozoya Austin, former director of Pemex.
Both newspapers indicated that, in the request, The Prosecutor’s Office considered that the former Mexican president was the “mediate author” of the crimes mentioned and those of an electoral nature.
In addition, he accused that Peña Nieto he “departed from the rule of law” and used the position for which he was elected in order to commit a crime “.
The agency said that, with its illegal action, Peña Nieto not only obtained personal benefit, but also sought “the benefit of the Odebrecht company, which had already made them the object of bribery, betraying the country with their poor performance ”.
According to the newspapers, the Prosecutor’s Office indicated that Peña Nieto had “his own apparatus of criminal power”, from which implemented a strategy of co-option of legislators for the approval of structural reforms in energy matters and by obtaining money, mainly from the corrupt Brazilian multinational Odebrecht, which served to pay bribes to deputies and senators.
“Peña Nieto played a central role in the commission of the crimes of bribery, treason, and electoral crime, which can be assumed on the basis of empirical propositions ”, indicated the Prosecutor’s Office.
On what theory is the Prosecutor’s Office based to accuse Enrique Peña Nieto?
El Universal pointed out that the FGR bases the probable intervention of Peña Nieto, as mediate author, in the so-called “theory of control or domination of the will by means of an organized power apparatus”.
According to the theory, the man behind (Peña Nieto) dominated the will of the direct perpetrators of the bribes in the Odebrecht case —Videgaray and Lozoya— through an organized power apparatus, “which in the specific case was the federal government.”
Meanwhile, Reforma said that, at the request of Peña Nieto, Videgaray “distributed spontaneously and through an intermediary person” 121 million 500,000 pesos (about $ 5.9 million) to legislators from the conservative National Action Party (PAN).
Stated that the crime of bribery was configured with cash deliveries to politicians from the PAN and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), while treason would have occurred by promoting structural reforms to grant benefits to foreign companies such as Odebrecht.
And although the request for an arrest warrant focuses only on Videgaray as the “material author” of the criminal acts, The Mexican Prosecutor’s Office made it clear that Peña Nieto was the orchestrator and promoter of the criminal actions.
On November 3, the current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, confirmed that the FGR requested an arrest warrant for the Odebrecht case against Luis Videgaray.
However, in the afternoon of that day, the Prosecutor’s Office issued a statement in which it assured that the federal Public Ministry had not received from a control judge “any rejection of the request for an arrest warrant against Luis ‘V'”.
According to local media, the FGR seeks to impute Videgaray for the Odebrecht case and would accuse him of treason, for allegedly operating in the illegal financing of PRI campaigns by the Brazilian company.
These accusations derive from the arrest in February of the former director of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) from 2012 to 2016 Emilio Lozoya, extradited from Spain to Mexico in mid-July.
As a cooperating witness, Lozoya reported former President Peña Nieto and Videgaray to the Prosecutor’s Office.
Accused them of “Order” him to receive 10.5 million dollars from Odebrecht for the electoral campaign and to bribe PAN legislators in favor of the energy reform that opened the sector to private investment in 2013.
But Lozoya also pointed to Felipe Calderón’s six-year term (2006-2012) for alleged privileges for the petrochemical company Etileno XXI, linked to a Mexican company that is an Odebrecht partner.
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