United States detects 61 million dollars of Humberto Moreira in banks in Monaco and the Cayman Islands in his wifes name

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Reforma article

Subject Matter: Money Laundering, Humberto Moreira, Off shore banks
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Moreira's fortune detected in Monaco

Reporter: Reforma Redaction
The wife and sister-in-law of former Coahuila Governor Humberto Moreira Valdes made deposits for up to 62.1 million dollars in bank accounts in Monaco and the Cayman Islands between 2013 and 2016.

According to an investigation by the US Treasury Dept. for corruption, money laundering and drug trafficking against Humberto Moreira, a former PRI national leader, and his brother Ruben, now Governor of Coahuila, are aware of a number of financial transactions of his relatives.

Reforma had access to the FKA file 835-530MMBT of the Financial Crimes Network (FinCen), a special agency that stores and analyzes information on financial transactions to combat financial crimes, such as fraud, money laundering and financing of terrorism.




The document includes bank statements detailing dozens of cash dollar deposits at the Broadway Bank of San Antonio, Texas, between 2013 and 2016. The statements made by Reforma are part of a file from FinCen of the Treasury Department of the United States; reveals the wealth accumulated by Vanessa Guerrero Martinez, Humberto Moreiras spouse, and Cecilia Aguilar Morales, wife of Ivan, brother of the former Governor.

Guerrero appears as the holder of the account 0010194130 at BNP Paribas Private Bank of Monaco, which in October 2015 had a balance of 10.8 million dollars, and by April 2016 had a balance of 16.6 million dollars after receiving transfers of 5.8 million dollars.

The resources were sent from the account 48371115 of Ricardo Mendoza Reyes, at Broadway National Bank in San Antonio, Texas. Mendoza is married to Elisa Moreira Valdes, sister of Humberto and Ruben, the current Governor of Coahuila.

As Guerrero lives in Monaco, the apartment building is registered at 47 Jardin Exotique Boulevard, while Mendoza Reyes registered a house at 20300 Grail Quest in San Antonio.

Humberto's wife has also held account 2326588 at CIBC First Caribbean International Bank in the Cayman Islands.

In February of 2013, the account held 12.1 million dollars, but by August of that year it had reached 18.6 million dollars, receiving 6.4 million dollars from another account at Broadway National. The latter was in the name of Cuauhtemoc Esquivel Sanchez, located as an official of the education sector in Coahuila.

The sister-in-law of Moreira, Cecilia Aguilar, handled the account 2937276, also in CIBC First Caribbean.

His balance, at the end of 2014, was 27 million, after Mendoza transferred 5.4 million from Broadway National Bank.

In January 2016, Humberto Moreira, a former PRI national leader, was arrested in Spain on charges of money laundering and embezzlement of public funds. On January the 22nd he was released for lack of evidence.

However, on February the 5th, 2016, the Treasury Department was alerted to suspicious money laundering movements of the former Governors relatives including his wife.

Even in September 2016, the mother of Vanesa Guerrero Martinez and mother-in-law of Moreira, Herminia Martinez, agreed with the US Government to hand over a $600,000 Texas residency, which was terminated last February.

The lawsuit against Martinez de la Fuente is part of the charges that Federal and Bexar County officials have filed against the former President of Coahuila and his administration officials accused of laundering million of dollars stolen from the Treasury.

Original article in Spanish at Reforma