The Mexican Attorney General’s Office announced through its social networks that it obtained arrest warrants against the Mexican driver, Inés Gómez Mont and her husband, Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga , in addition to five other people and seven companies, for their possible participation in organized crime and operation with resources of illicit origin since the year 2016.
The body of justice in Mexico, headed by Alejandro Gertz Manero, sent a message to Inés and Vïctor Manuel, who presumably are outside of Mexico. “In the cases of those who fled the country, the corresponding red card has been obtained and the international collaboration response is awaited”, was confirmed through a statement.
“In November 2019, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), through the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime (FEMDO), opened an investigation file against Víctor Manuel “A”, Inés “G”, Edgardo Mauricio “V”, Rosario “A”, Margarita “C”, Ricardo “P”, Mauricio “R” and seven companies, for their possible participation in organized crime and operations with resources of illicit origin” , detailed the Mexican authority.
The couple, who have stayed away from public life since the end of last year and who are accused of being the alleged leaders of the organization that devised strategies to evade taxes, already had search warrants issued by Interpol, for which they are wanted in 190 countries around the world.
“All these people, physical and moral, probably colluded to simulate operations and provide resources to that criminal organization; lowering tax burdens and hiding operations, thus hindering the tracking of those resources”, is specified.
“To meet this objective, they presumably entered into various contracts with the Decentralized Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Rehabilitation of the Ministry of the Interior, using digital tax receipts on the Internet, which concealed false operations and pretended acts of commerce and provision of services that were not carried out; all this with the purpose of laundering money, disguising said crimes of legal profits that were non-existent”, the statement said.
The FGR said that three people from this group of former officials “are already being held in federal criminal justice centers” for an investigation into the diversion of approximately 2,000 190 million pesos from the Ministry of the Interior during the past six-year term (2012-2018) awarding contracts to shell companies.
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2021