According to the edition of El País de España, the former president's lawyer is being investigated for illicit association and money laundering.
The Spanish media added in its note published Tuesday that Collado began to be investigated after the lawyer transferred 10.5 million euros, about $12 million dollars, from Andorra to a BBVA account in Madrid six days before being arrested in July. According to the Spanish newspaper, Collado is known in Mexico as the power attorney for defending authorities and politicians.
Collado detained on July 9 and has since been in prison on charges of several crimes, he recalled.
The fortune of Collado, also a lawyer for Raúl Salinas, in the principality, deposited in the Banca Privada d'Andorra (BPA), had been frozen along with that of the other clients of this entity in March 2015, when the financial institution was closed for alleged irregularities, El País mentioned.
Subsequently, Judge Canòlic Mingorance seized the funds of Peña Nieto's lawyer for an alleged crime of money laundering.
The Public Ministry of Andorra said there was a risk that the lawyer's assets in that country would be transferred abroad before the investigation was completed, so they requested seizure of Collado's accounts.
He added that the Andorra judge, Maria Àngels Moreno, asked Mexico for all the information about the arrest of Juan Ramón Collado, as well as his links to criminal activities.
He also asks that Cristina Lozano, former deputy general manager of the Banca Privada d'Andorra, and Joan Marc Masson, former employee of the bank, be investigated for the same cause.
Go figure
ReplyDeleteThis right here is better than catching a high profile name, follow the money and seize assets.
ReplyDeleteThis is what needs to happen , follow the money, dismantle the finance structure
ReplyDeleteThis is why the Pri lost
ReplyDeleteA real high-up in the narco food-chain: never seen blood, never smelled death, always in a nice clean shirt raking in the millions which has caused death and mayhem in his country and the world.
ReplyDeleteA real scumbag who hides behind ethical arguments, certificates and proper documentation!
For those pushing gun control. There are already countries with strict gun controls.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/mexicos-soaring-murder-rate-proves-gun-control-is-deadly-11571696723
That's a lot of money for a lawyer to have made. The astronomical amount is unbelievable to say his earnings are legitimate.
ReplyDeleteSeattle Times is reporting the money in the Andorra bank account came from suspect land deals, probably meaning a bunch of indigenous or ejido land was stolen and then sold to foreign corporations.
ReplyDeleteMexican government curruption at it's finest. How did he get all that money? When someone runs is office, that is when they are milking the system, same as judges they get lots of bribes, from cartel members, to set thier comrades free.
ReplyDeleteIf funds are in fact Pena Neito or Salines, they should also be in jail. They are both crooks and will fit find in jail.
ReplyDeleteLots of money which cartel was he working with?
ReplyDeleteMexico is all corrupt. Drain the swamp.
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