The CENFI, an initiative of the past six-year term and which would have led the investigation, has within its structure elements of the Ministry of the Interior.
According to the communications intercepted by the national intelligence apparatus and reported to Sedena, López Hernández would have received information about deposits and supported with protection members of the network that profits from the fuel stolen from Pemex through agents of the Specialized Investigation Deputy Attorney’s Office. and Organized Crime (SEIDO).
The reports contained in the emails link the name of the Tabasco politician with that of a man whom they identify as ‘El Hamer’, a distributor of stolen fuel and in charge of co-opting authorities for the free transit of gasoline, who would have at official as part of his network of contacts. “The former governor emphasized that he is at the order and if the National Guard stopped them, they would speak directly to the SEIDO commander at the number they already had,” is reported in one of the documents to which Expansion had access.
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The monitoring of the illegal fuel sales network frequently reports the interaction with an official whom they call “the secretary from above” who would give instructions to some members of the structure through other public officials.
The investigations identified the planning of a meeting between one of the leaders of the smuggling network with officials from the Comprehensive Port Administration and the National Customs Agency to receive instructions from the “secretary above.”
The meeting, planned for mid-August, would also have the participation of a businessman. But the meeting, according to the stories, did not take place.
The stories also account for the participation of officials from the state coordination of the National Guard, Pemex and the prosecutor’s offices and a high command of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection, of whom they do not detail more information.
The name of the Tabasco politician is framed within one of the cases that have been marked by the CENFI as one of the six priorities to follow in the southern region of the country. The investigations, according to the leaked files, would have begun just this year, with only one arrest so far. The network would have a relationship with a fraction of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel with a presence in the south of the country. This last group would ask to be informed about the movements of fuel and deposits to allow them to continue with their activities.
President López Obrador yesterday disqualified the documents contained in the leaks and defended the Tabasco man whom he described as “an honest man”, after the documents revealed that the secretary included men related to the aforementioned cartel in his cabinet and has had ties to groups related to fuel theft. The documents filtered by the group of hackers Guacamaya would uncover the first relationship of a front-line government official related to fuel theft, one of the great pillars of the Obradorist discourse.