Political Rivals Fabricated Prison Case Towards Former Mexican Governor, Say Attorneys

A gaggle of attorneys representing a former Mexican border state governor stated varied authorities figures from Mexico’s ruling social gathering colluded to “fabricate a false criminal case” in a failed try and arrest and take away the politician who belongs to a rival social gathering. The attorneys introduced they filed a felony criticism with Mexico’s Legal professional Basic’s Workplace.

The people within the alleged collusion embody the present Tamaulipas Governor Americo Villarreal, Mexico’s former head of the Monetary Intelligence Unit Santiago Nieto, Federal Choose Ivan Aaron Zeferin Hernandez, and others as a part of an alleged political witch-hunt.

Throughout a information convention on Monday, lawyer Javier Coello and different attorneys from his agency introduced the transfer and introduced video and photographic proof to again up their claims. The attorneys demanded their day in courtroom.

“The former head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) Santiago Nieto, in collusion with then-Senator Americo Villarreal (current Tamaulipas governor) created a scheme in which they took advantage of the institutions they represented to use the tools of those positions to impute false actions to (Francisco) Cabeza de Vaca and then try to remove him from office (former governor of Tamaulipas),” Coello stated.

In response to the attorneys, Nieto centered on a 2014 house mortgage and tried to make it seem to be it was cash laundering from the Sinaloa Cartel. An investigation carried out by his personal UIF proved that narrative was false.

Coello additionally claimed that Nieto testified in a congressional listening to that Cabeza de Vaca had embezzled funds from development initiatives that had been by no means constructed. Nevertheless, the lawyer revealed that the FGR decided that the initiatives had been constructed to specs. The legal professionals additionally claimed that a number of the allegations towards Cabeza de Vaca got here from weblog posts and social media pages that had been then introduced as proof.

Primarily based on these allegations, congressional members voted to take away the constitutional immunity from Cabeza de Vaca for considered one of three allegations — the one coping with a tax subject — and never the allegations of cash laundering or partaking in a felony group. Nevertheless, Federal Choose Ivan Aaron Zeferin issued an arrest warrant for the previous governor on the 2 fees that weren’t licensed by congressional members, making the warrant unlawful, the lawyer said.

In response to Coello, Santiago Nieto obtained directions from murdered gas theft kingpin Sergio Carmona, Morena Get together President Mario Delgado, Americo Villarreal, and others to say false felony acts by the previous governor. The lawyer confirmed a screenshot of a WhatsApp message from Nieto which he claims to have acted out beneath orders from authorities officers.

As Breitbart Texas has reported, the deceased fuel-theft kingpin Carmona has been accused of funneling cartel cash into Morena political campaigns.

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