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Deputy María Clemente pointed out the businessman for sending her to the Credit Bureau.
Ricardo Salinas has a fortune valued at more than 10.7 billion dollars: Bloomberg.
In Mexico there are 1,162 Elektra branches.
Businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego is characterized by being a very active person on his Twitter account, where he has come to answer all kinds of comments from users who are looking for an opportunity to contact him. However, his answers end up giving something to talk about.
The owner of TotalPlay, Banco Azteca, Elektra and Tv Azteca has a valued fortune, according to data from Bloomberg, which amounts to 10 thousand 700 million dollars and that position him in the 167th position of the richest people in the world.
Of the previous brands, Elektra stands out for the high income it generates for the businessman, since it operates in more than 6 thousand contact points through its Elektra stores, Salinas and Rocha, Azteca Bank and branches of Purpose Financial; Of these, more than 5,000 are in five Latin American countries: Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, and more than 1,000 branches in the United States.
The department store has 1,162 branches in Mexico; The number of employees that are part of Grupo Salinas is 61,465.
According to June 202 business report2, Grupo Salinas recorded revenues of more than 195 billion pesos, with more than 6,200 Elektra contact points in five countries; 24.5 million deposit accounts in Mexico and 3,799 Banzo Azteca establishments; 3.7 million users in its service Total Play; more than 38,000 hours of content produced on open television by Aztec TV; more than thousand 550 Net Stores and many other successful business schemes.
Deputy points out Salinas for “sending her to the credit bureau”
The deputy of Morena, María Clemente García, said that the businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego is one of the magnates who have enriched the most in Mexico, at the expense of “power and public resources”, this during his presentation of the initiative #QueLosMásRicosPaguen, which promotes an increase in the percentage of taxes so that millionaires pay more.
The deputy highlighted that Salinas receives large amounts of money, thanks to her television station and the interest she charges to those who buy at Elektra, pointing out that she is even in the Credit Bureau for a PlayStation console that she stopped paying for not have sufficient financial resources.
“In my ordinary citizenship, I worked as a sex worker and as a taxi driver in Didi,” he recounted. “I bought a Playstation and stopped paying for it at some point, I only needed 4 thousand pesos. For 4 thousand pesos, Salinas Pliego sent me to the Credit Bureau”.
To which he commented that his case is one of thousands in the country: “He sent me to the Credit Bureau, but he can owe the people 16 billion taxes,” he said.
On the other hand, at the press conference it was announced that this initiative will be promoted by the deputies that would modify Article 31 of the Constitution, adding, in addition, the concept of progressivity that will allow those who receive more money to collect more taxes. .