The Mexican Attorney General’s Office (FGR) is investigating former President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2012) for illicit enrichment, money laundering, as well as crimes of an electoral and patrimonial nature, the agency reported in a statement on Tuesday.
The announcement occurs almost a month later that the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Ministry of Finance denounced that Peña Nieto had received just over $1 million dollars in irregular transfers and that he maintains “ties” with companies that were large contractors of the State during his term.
The FIU then said that it had handed over said files to the attorney general’s office.
Of all the investigations, the one referring to electoral and patrimonial crimes stands out, which includes “several complaints in the that is involved” the Spanish construction company O HL.
In the case of money laundering and illegal international transfers, the prosecutor’s office is putting together an investigation folder based on the Treasury’s complaints and awaits the tax and treasury expert opinions, while obtaining more “indispensable” evidence to prosecute the case, he detailed.
For the investigation of illicit enrichment, “fiscal and patrimonial opinions are being unburdened through the corresponding institutions and specialized experts in the matter ”, added the FGR.
The accusations against Peña Nieto by the government of the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the confirmation of the fiscal investigation occur after journalistic reports that exhibited the ex-president’s ostentatious lifestyle of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
According to the Spanish newspaper El País, Peña Nieto lives in an exclusive neighborhood of Madrid, known for its high rents and p security circles, where he has actors Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem as neighbors, in addition to owning a luxury apartment valued at more than €000, euros.
Following the complaints from the FIU, Peña Nieto responded to via Twitter on July 7. In his message he said he was “true that before the competent authorities I will be allowed to clarify any question about my assets and demonstrate its legality.”
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