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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By KELIN DILLON Following an investigation by Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), financial records tracking the spending of controversial Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero and recently disgraced former FIU head Santiago Nieto showed the two officials’ extravagant spending habits, doling out millions and millions of pesos for exotic cars, luxury properties
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Who says that corruption and nepotistic malfeasance are not well and alive and flourishing in Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party? Certainly not anyone with an inkling of honest impartiality and nonpartisan fairness. Just this Wednesday, Nov. 24, the daily newspaper Reforma pointed out that the government of Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after the former head of Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Santiago Nieto, Castillo resigned from his position due to the scandal of his Guatemala-located nuptials, the current iteration of the FIU was asked to investigate the unit as it was run under Nieto’s leadership, said National Action Party (PAN) Senator José Erandi Bermúdez. “The current
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By KELIN DILLON On the heels of his scandal-ridden wedding in Guatemala, Santiago Nieto Castillo presented his resignation as the head of Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on Monday, Nov. 8, after three years in the role, to be replaced by founding member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) Pablo Gómez Álvarez. Nieto’s nuptials caught major flack in the
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Nov. 3, former CEO of Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Emilio Ricardo Lozoya Austin went to court for his role in the Odebrecht case, an international corruption scheme in which Lozoya allegedly received $10 million in bribes for his participation, to request an extension on his lawyers’ investigation and ended up having his
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By KELIN DILLON As the blowback from the ongoing worker’s strike of Mexico’s under-construction Dos Bocas refinery over labor abuses continues, Secretary of Energy Rocío Nahle has come under fire by members of her very own party, the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena), for her purported role in covering up the dispute. After a violent clash at the facility, which
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) continues to wage war on the country’s scientific community, it has consistently ignored the year-plus long evidence presented by the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) outlining the Green Party’s new San Luis Potosí Governor Ricardo Gallardo Cardona’s alleged illegal enrichment and money laundering of 724 million pesos. Back in August
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In what seems like a little bit of very justified tit-for-tat, the family of Laura Morán Servín, widow of Federal Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero’s late brother Federico Gertz Manero, filed a request on Wednesday, Sept. 22, with Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) to investigate allegedly illicit deposits by their in-law in foreign tax havens for
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Morelos Governor and former Mexican soccer great Cuauhtémoc Blanco Bravo definitely earned himself a yellow card from his constituents over the weekend when he was seen teeing off with businessman Arturo Elías Ayub and the former soccer goalkeeper Jorge Campos at a Cocoyoc golf course on Sunday, Sept. 19, while the Yautepec River and
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