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César Duarte Sentenced to One-Year Preventive Detention

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By MARK LORENZANA  As a precautionary measure, Mexican Control Judge Humberto Chávez on Sunday, June 5, ordered a one-year preventive detention (jail without bail) against César Horacio Duarte Jáquez, the former governor of Chihuahua and member of the centralist and once-all-powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), for alleged crimes of embezzlement and criminal association. Judge Chávez set the indictment for Wednesday,

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Judge Throws out Case Filed against Scherer Ibarra Lawyers

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A federal judge on Thursday, May 19, dealt Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) a major judicial setback by ordering the dismissal of a case filed against three lawyers by fellow lawyer Juan Ramón Collado accusing them of extortion. Collado, who previously served as former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s most trustworthy legal advisor, is

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AMLO Asks UIF to Investigate Nieto’s Financial Assets

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday, Dec. 8, that the country’s Public Function Secretariat (SFP) should investigate the accumulation of assets of the Treasury Secretariat’s (Hacienda) former head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), Santiago Nieto, who in 25 months acquired four properties and a car worth at least 40 million

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FGJ Tracks 1 Billion Missing Pesos from Mancera’s Mayoral Term

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By KELIN DILLON In part of its quest to investigate alleged corruption and illegal enrichment by past Mexican government officials, the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (FGJ) has reportedly tracked one billion missing pesos that were purportedly embezzled under the administration of former Mexico City Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera. The investigation has apparently revealed a network of shell companies used

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Audit Uncovers Government Irregularities for 588 Million Pesos

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The first draft of a public expenditure audit of the second year of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration showed fiscal irregularities amounting to 588 million pesos. The extensive audit of government spending for 2020, which was released on Wednesday, June 30, by the Office of the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF),

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Mexico News Roundup

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By RICARDO CASTILLO A Call to Civil Disobedience TVAzteca anchorman Javier Alatorre in the station’s nightly newscast “Hechos” (“Facts”)created a humongous scandal on Friday, April 17, after claiming the following: “As every night, Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell led the (press) conference on Covid-19 in Mexico. But his figures and his conferences have become irrelevant. Furthermore, and to put it plainly,

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Rosario Robles and the Master Fraud

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By RICARDO CASTILLO     Once upon a time, back on Dec. 2, 2012, when former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto appointed Rosario Robles Berlanga as the Social Development (Sedesol) Secretary, this columnist published an article in The News – then the only English-language daily in Mexico – claiming that Rosario was “a woman for all seasons” and “a survivor.” That may

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New Labor Central Kicks Off Under Gómez Urrutia

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eNapoleón Gómez Urrutia, head of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union. Photo: veracruzenlasnoticas.com By RICARDO CASTILLO     The wheel of fortune has made a full circle for Mexican Senator Napoleón Gómez Urrutia. In 2006, Gómez Urrutia, then — and still — leader of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union, fled Mexico Canada-bound, charged with a $55 million embezzlement of union funds. Had he

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Ex-Sonora Governor Released from Prison after Two Years

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF     After more than two years of incarceration, former Sonora Governor Guillermo Padrés Elias was released from the Reclusorio Oriente prison on the night of Saturday, Feb. 2, by order of the Federal Attorney General (PGR). Padrés Elias turned himself into Mexican authorities in November 2016, after being accused of money laundering, tax fraud and

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