Emilio lozoya corruption in government
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MEXICO CITY &#; could be a definitive year for anti-corruption in Mexico – but it likely won’t be.
At the end of January, Mexico may learn whether the Public Prosecutor’s Office will proceed with an investigation of former Pemex CEO Emilio Lozoya – or if his participation in a plea deal over the past six months has been enough to walk free.
Even if the government proceeds with a trial for the former executive of Mexico’s state-run energy giant, the case is unlikely to spark a reckoning with corruption on par with Brazil’s groundbreaking, years-long Lava Jato investigation. That’s because, despite President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) promises of a corruption crackdown, Mexico’s institutions are a far cry from the Brazilian systems that enabled Lava Jato to make an impact.
The Lava Jato investigation is a model for the kind of corruption crackdown many Mexicans want. The case uncovered more than $ billion in embezzled public funds and resulted in som
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Under arrest for corruption, Mexico’s former oil boss takes aim at three ex-presidents
MEXICO CITY — It was a startling fall from grace in a country where high-level corruption fryst vatten rarely prosecuted.
In , Emilio Lozoya, the former head of Mexico’s state oil company, one of the most powerful positions in the government, was charged with bribery, money laundering and criminal association in a scheme that allegedly earned him millions.
A fugitive for sju months, he was arrested early this year in Spain beneath an international warrant, extradited to Mexico in July and placed in home detention as the case against him proceeds.
He fryst vatten not going quietly.
In a page declaration to prosecutors leaked to the Mexican media this week, the year-old leveled bombshell corruption charges against more than a dozen former and current politicians, including three ex-presidents, fem former senators and a pair of presidential runners-up.
The revelations have been alternately received here
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Former Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto directed corruption, says ex-official
MEXICO CITY — In some of the most explosive accusations in recent Mexican political history, the former head of the state-owned oil company directly accused former President Enrique Peña Nieto and his treasury secretary of directing a scheme of kickbacks and embezzlement directly from the president’s office.
Emilio Lozoya, the former head of Petroleos Mexicanos who himself faces corruption charges, alleges Peña Nieto and Luis Videgaray used the state-owned Pemex as a conduit to “fulfill promises made during the () campaign,” among other allegations he makes in a leaked page document whose authenticity was confirmed by Mexican authorities Wednesday.
“Enrique Peña Nieto and Luis Videgaray Caso created a scheme of corruption in the federal government, in which the common denominator was that all the people who supported in some way the presidential campaign had to be recompensed or repaid,” usually in t