The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) of Mexico criticized Mexican judges this Sunday for allegedly benefiting the former director of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex)., Emilio Lozoyaaccused of receiving bribes from the Brazilian Odebrecht in exchange for contracts with the Mexican Government.
“The District Judges and Federal Magistrates have once again clearly demonstrated their partiality and illegality in favor of Emilio ‘L’,” the FGR said in a statement.
Besides, The Mexican Public Ministry pointed out that this partial and illegal action is to the detriment of the Mexican State and the state company Pemex.
This, after a Mexican judge of the First Collegiate Court of Appeal in Mexico City decided not to admit as evidence Lozoya’s banking information obtained in Brazil and Switzerlandsince it ruled that the evidence was not obtained with a court order.
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However, the FGR criticized that the information obtained from their bank accounts has legal recognition in the Constitution, in its article 133, as well as that this type of actions is carried out regularly by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit ( SHCP), as a mechanism for international cooperation.
He even maintained that the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) itself has ruled these instruments as legal.
A few days ago and illegally, evidently illegally, violating the Federal Penal Code, one of those same Judges, of that jurisdiction, granted benefits to Emilio “L” that express articles of the legislation deny him,” said the Prosecutor’s Office. Mexican.
In addition, he ruled that inappropriate conduct is “increasingly evident.”
Until now, Lozoya is the highest official in Mexico and the only one implicated in this case for corruptionwhich also affects the Brazilian Odebrecht, in one of the largest corruption cases in Latin America.
From this case, The former director of Pemex allegedly benefited from bribes of more than 10 million dollarswhile his process continues without being able to conclude the evidentiary stage.
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