Peña, Duarte accomplices in looting Veracruz

– Calderón and Yunes also involved – “Accomplice of theft” Karimi released from Mexico City (APRO). – If the arrest of Javier Duarte represented “a firm and powerful message of the Mexican state against impunity”, as Enrique Pena Nieto affirmed, rather than the crude political operation that is being revealed, then the fall of the former governor of Veracruz would also mean the fall of the Mexican president. But nothing will happen, because in the plunder of the heritage of the people of Veracruz, in addition to Peña and Duarte, members of the PRI, the highest level of complicity involved Felipe Calderón, a member of the National Action Party, and Miguel Angel Yunes Linares, currently a member of the National Action Party. Governor of Veracruz.In the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) and the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), there is evidence that part of Duarte’s theft was aimed at Pena’s 2012 presidential campaign, when he presented Pena as an example of the “New PRI”, like other former kleptocratic governors such as Roberto Borge and César Duarte, the latter also a fugitive. If there is a real desire for justice, rather than an obvious arrangement, the PGR will resume the investigation that began on January 28, 2012, when the federal police seized 25 million pesos in cash on a plane owned by the Veracruz state government, at the airport in Toluca, Mexico State, when Pena was already a presidential candidate. According to the preliminary investigation AP/PGR/MEX/TOL/VI/310ª/2012, these funds are part of 2.993 billion pesos withdrawn in cash from a bank in the last 13 months, since December 2011. The SHCP Financial Intelligence Unit confirmed that the Santander bank accounts belonged to the Veracruz state government led by Duarte. Where did all the money go? The details are unknown, because the PGR and the SHCP did not continue the investigation that year, in accordance with the court order, according to the excuses of Felipe Calderón, who hinted in May 2016 that part of these resources were used for the Peña campaign. Four years ago. Yunes Linares himself used this information to blackmail Peña last October, when his victory in the Federal Electoral Tribunal of the Judiciary (TEPJF) was shaky. On October 12, Yunes Linares, speaking of the “corrupt regime” led by Peña, announced that his own investigation had reached the “heart of corruption” of the Duarte government and threatened to reveal the identity of the “beneficiaries”. He would publish this information at his inauguration, which he said “will shock Mexico”. He added: “They will try to prevent me from taking office because the regime knows that I have reached the heart of corruption. They do not want me to be governor because they know that I have information that will shake Mexico and that once I am in office I will have the tools to know more deeply about the final destination of the resources stolen from the Mexican people. Veracruz.” But after his blackmail took effect and with his victory in the TEPJF ratified, Yunes Linares forgot about the problem: December arrived, he took office, joined the federal government and never spoke again about Duarte’s “corrupt heart” and his “corrupt heart”. As it is known in political circles, the “beneficiaries” included Peña Nieto and his election in 2012. After Duarte’s arrest, his wife Karime Macías was not charged with any crime – defined by Yunes as an “accomplice” in the theft – and the fate of the former governor will be the same as Peña’s: impunity… Comments on Twitter: @Alvaro_Delgado