The Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradordenied this Thursday that his children are corrupt after reports published this week that show alleged conflicts of interest of two of them in public contracts.
The president branded an article on the portal as “slander” LatinUsby journalist Carlos Loret de Mola, which reveals that a network of friends of his son Andrés Manuel López Beltrán has obtained contracts for 100 million pesos from the federal Administration.
Yes they must exist (contracts), but my children have nothing to do with it. My children are not corrupt, that is, nothing to do with Loret de Mola, who has dedicated herself to mercenary journalism for profit, ”he argued in his daily press conference.
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The president asserted that “there is no problem, nothing,” or conflict of interest in the contracts obtained by companies close to López Beltrán from the National Water Commission (Conagua) and the Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu). .
Loret puts out a report that my children are doing business, which is flatly false. It is part of journalism, if it can be called that, that he exercises, because in reality he is a mercenary who belongs to the journalism underworld, nothing happens because it is not true, ”he replied.
“It has been shown that he is a specialist in assemblies and, if he has evidence of corruption, that he go to the Prosecutor’s Office, but he doesn’t (he does), it is the slogan that slander does not stain, but there is no problem,” he remarked. .
On the other hand, the organization Mexicanos Unidos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad (MCCI) revealed on Wednesday that another son of the president, José Ramón López Beltrán, lives in a house belonging to the assistant director of La Jornadathe newspaper with the most contracts in the current six-year term, for more than 750 million pesos.
The president accused the press of “harassing” his children.
Yesterday they went to the house where José Ramón lives to wait for him there, it’s bullying, but I tell my children: ‘Hold on, don’t fall for any provocation,’” he said.
This is not the first time that López Obrador’s children have faced accusations of corruption and influence peddling.
MCCI revealed in January 2022 that López Beltrán and his partner, Carolyn Adams, occupied in 2019 and 2020 a residence in Houston, Texas, which belonged to Keith L. Schilling, a Baker Hughes executive, who that year obtained a contract from Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), a scandal called “the gray house”.
While in November 2021, Proceso magazine and journalist Carmen Aristegui exhibited that the president’s flagship reforestation program, Sembrando Vida, was used to benefit the “Rocío” chocolate factory of the president’s children in Tabasco, in the southeast from the country.
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