By Reforma Agency
23 Aug 2024, 16:01 PM EDT
The Attorney General’s Office captured in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Hector Carrasco Muroa shareholder of Operadora Grupo Gas Mart, a company that allegedly participated in the laundering of 5,000 million pesos (262 million dollars), diverted through contracts of the penitentiary system during the administration of Genaro Garcia Luna.
Gregorio Salazar Hernández, control judge of the Federal Criminal Justice Center of Almoloya de Juárez, in the State of Mexico, linked Carrasco to the process for the crimes of organized crime and money launderingthe Prosecutor’s Office reported in a statement.
“Héctor Carrasco allegedly joined a criminal organization operated by Genaro García, former Secretary of Federal Public Security, and others, in which they diverted large amounts of resources from the Decentralized Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Readaptation (OADPRS), through the simulation of contracts,” said the FGR.
Salazar set a 6-month deadline for the investigation complementary and imposed on the accused official preventive detention in the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary, State of Mexico.
On April 4, 2023, Judge Salazar ordered the arrest of Genaro García Luna and 59 other people, including Héctor Carrasco Muro, because they allegedly participated in a scheme to divert resources and launder 5,112 million pesos from 10 contracts with the Ministry of the Interior.
The questioned agreements were direct awards from the OADPRS to the company Nunvav, registered by the former Secretary of Federal Public Security in Panama.
According to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Between 2015 and 2019, Nunvav made transfers to Operadora Grupo Gas Marta company whose accounting records were allegedly controlled by García Luna’s accomplices.
In turn, this gas company in which Carrasco Muro participated triangulated 20 million 800,000 pesos to Glac Security Consulting, a company in which Genaro García Luna’s sister, named Gloria, and her son, were shareholders. Edgar Rodriguez Garcia.
GLAC Security Consulting is a private security company established in 2014 and had consulting contracts with federal and state governments, political parties and companies.
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