By: EFE Updated 13 Jan 2022, 17: 49 pm EST
The governor of Morelos, former soccer player Cuauhtémoc Blanco, filed a complaint on Monday with the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) against “narco-political” from the state that, he said, are trying to destroy his image.
The state president made these statements and filed the complaint after a photograph with three people allegedly linked to drug trafficking.
“Here I am showing my face and I am not going to stop and I do not have them afraid. Here I am, firm“, Blanco declared at the entrance to the facilities of the Specialized Prosecutor for Organized Crime (Femdo), a body belonging to the FGR, in the City from Mexico.
Cuauhtémoc Blanco, governor of Morelos, arrives at the Attorney General’s Office where he will file a complaint against those who are campaigning against him
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Surrounded by dozens of media, Blanco went to present the legal action before what he described as a “dirty war” orchestrated against him.
Although the governor He did not specify who the complaint involves and only mentioned that against “whoever is responsible”, he said that the prosecutors (general and corruption) of Morelos “are anything but autonomous.”
Furthermore , said that there are judges, police officers, mayors and legislators who have done much damage to the state and also mentioned the former governor of Morelos Graco Ramírez.
“The state of Morelos is being besieged by a few political actors of the past and economic ones of the present, but very powerful, with sufficient resources to wage a dirty, intense and lasting war”, he sentenced.
Surrounded by controversy
Blanco made the decision to file this complaint after the newspaper El Sol de México published in early January the image where Blanco appears with Irving Eduardo Solano, alias “el Profe”, leader of the Guerreros Unidos Cartel arrested in February 2021.
They also appear Homero Figueroa, alias “la Tripa”, alleged leader of the criminal group Comando Tlahuica; as well as Raymundo Isidro Castro, alias “el Ray”, who was the regional leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in Morelos and who was assassinated in October 2019 in a fight at the Morelos Reintegration Center.
According to the newspaper, the image was captured shortly after Blanco, who fulfilled this 17 of January 49 years, will take office as governor of Morelos on 1 October 2018.
“I will continue taking photos with whoever asks me”, added the three-time World Cup player.
On the other hand, in recent days several “narcomantas” have appeared in which organized crime writes messages threatening the governor and claiming responsibility for the murder of Benjamín López Palacios, mayor of Xoxocotla, in the past 11 from January. “You are going to run out of mayors, I warned you,” reads the canvas.
#Violence | Two banners with a message for the governor of #Morelos, Cuauhtémoc Blanco, after the assassination of the mayor of Xoxocotla, Benjamín López. Both blankets were located in the municipality of Puente de Ixtla, and again link the president with criminal groups. pic.twitter.com/9RLXUlvis9- Ricardo Rocha (@RicardoRocha_MX) January 11, 2022
On January 5, the former soccer player already said that he is not a criminal nor does he agree with criminals. “I will continue working to give peace to the state. Better that the ‘narco-politicians’ worry, they are being investigated, I have nothing to hide, that they investigate me at 60%”, Blanco said then.
In mid-September 2022, the Morelos Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office , received a complaint against Blanco and a network of friends and relatives investigated by the Federal Government’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF).
The complaint was filed a year after learning of an investigation by the FIU and the FGR into an alleged network of corruption by Blanco’s collaborators, who entered politics more than five years ago.
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