EFE.- After two weeks in silence, television presenter Inés Gómez Mont claimed to be innocent and denied any link to organized crime and money laundering, amid the investigation by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
In a message published on his social networks, Gómez Mont assured that he has been silent these days to try to understand the facts and focus on his defense.
“Despite not having access to the file, I want to emphasize that I am innocent and have not committed any crime,” he said in the message.
He added that, according to the media, she is being investigated for receiving money from two public contracts worth 3,000 million pesos and for belonging to organized crime.
“Those facts are absolutely false,” he said. And he added that she “never” has stolen “a peso.”
“I am a television host and a full-time mom. And under no circumstances do I belong to organized crime ”, he stressed.
He said he had a “well-founded fear” that evidence would be fabricated against him and indicated that he would continue to work with his “legal team” to defend himself. “But I can’t be silent anymore,” he said.
“I know who I am. For myself and for my children, I will innocently demonstrate my dignity and will not keep silent. I repeat: I am innocent and this is an injustice ”, he concluded.
Gómez Mont is wanted along with her husband Víctor Álvarez Puga by the FGR and apparently she is taking refuge in a luxurious mansion that she owns in Miami Beach, although some media indicate that she could be in the Bahamas.
In mid-September it was announced that both Gómez Mont and Álvarez Puga were accused of the crimes of embezzlement (embezzlement), organized crime and operations with resources of illicit origin, which amount to 3,000 million pesos, for which an arrest warrant was issued against him.
The driver, the businessman, and her brother, Alejandro Álvarez Puga, would be involved in the use of shell companies that facilitate tax evasion, diversion of public resources and money laundering for third parties.
Because these crimes are classified as serious, they merit preventive detention, which is why the FGR would be in the process of requesting Interpol to issue two red tokens for the search and capture of Gómez Mont and her husband.
This Tuesday it also jumped to the media that the same case involving Gómez Mont and her husband would be investigating another ten people.
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LEGAL HISTORY
The legal problems of Gómez Mont and her husband are not new.
In 2010, the then Attorney General’s Office (PGR) and the Tax Administration Service (SAT) registered the offices of Álvarez Puga y Asociados’s office.
The SAT pointed out that the accounting firm advised its clients to register their workers as partners or cooperative members in order not to pay them the distribution of profits and avoid taxes and social security payments.
In 2012, the newspaper The New York Times published that a company of the entrepreneur’s tax and administrative advice was actually a shell of shell firms.
In 2016, the presenter was accused of obtaining income higher than what she reported on her tax return and had to pay more than 2.6 million pesos.
If found guilty, Gómez Mont, who has 7 children, could face a sentence of at least 20 years in prison.
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