The Mexican Government confirmed that Linda Cristina Pereyra, wife of Genaro García Luna, is protected before the Mexican justice, so he proceeded to unfreeze his bank accounts.
The wife of the former Secretary of Public Security from 2006 to 2012 obtained the protection by the seventeenth collegiate court in administrative matters of the Mexican capital, after the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) included her in the list of people blocked from December 9, 2019.
According to the FIU, belonging to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) of Mexico, Pereyra, who was a partner of García Luna in the GLAC company, is accused of carrying out operations with resources of illegal origin.
“The FIU had included Pereyra Gálvez in the list of blocked persons as a precautionary measure so that she could not make financial movements while the criminal proceedings are being resolved, since she was an integral part of the money laundering plot headed by Genaro García Luna. ”, said the Mexican government in an information card.
In addition, The Mexican authorities detailed that the wife of García Luna, accused of diverting public resources, also faces a lawsuit in a civil court in FloridaUSA.
This, with the purpose of repatriating to Mexico 745.8 million dollars illegally stolen from the Mexican public treasury and transferred to Miami, in the USA.
This Tuesday, her husband was found guilty of five crimes related to links and bribes with drug trafficking that allowed his illegal operation in the countryafter Pereyra took the stand as the only defense witness against the former Mexican official.
In the morning, during his usual press conference, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador insisted that his government “will not leave” the case of the former Secretary of Public Safety from 2006 to 2012, despite the trial that is taking place against him in New Yorksince it will seek to recover more than 745 million dollars.
According to information from the Mexican government, García Luna would have built a “corruption network” and money laundering for personal benefit and that of his close associates, for which he filed a civil lawsuit in Florida to recover all that money diverted through purchases. real estate, luxury and collection vehicles, among others. “Under the auspices of García Luna, a family business conglomerate that operates in different countries obtained 30 contracts with various public security agencies in Mexicofrom which public resources for an amount of 745.9 million dollars were extracted”, indicated Pablo Gómez, head of the FIU on February 9.
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