Son of 'El Chapo' asked FGR to be informed if he is being investigated

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat   TY GUS  Jornada

Brother requested files

In the last six months, the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) received more than 50 applications through the transparency portal in which various citizens asked to be informed if there are any investigation files against them, or preliminary inquiries, arrest warrants or appearance by the alleged commission of federal crimes.

Among them are Joaquín Guzmán López (son of Joaquín  El Chapo  Guzmán and brother of Ovidio Guzmán); Francisco Álvarez Murphy Alarcón, owner of Grupo Laboratorios Imperiales Pharma, a company that was disabled last August for failing to deliver triple viral vaccines, and a person allegedly related to the late former governor of Puebla Rafael Moreno Valle and who is investigated for operations with resources of illicit origin.

In February of this year, the Deputy Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice, Brian A. Benczkowski, and the Special Agent in Charge, Scott Brown, of the Office of Immigration and Customs National Security Investigations at Arizona, announced that Ovid Guzman and his brother Joaquin Guzman were being accused of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana between 2008 and 2018.

In response to the request for information with folio 0001700540419, and through the official letter FGR / UTAG / DG / 00821/2019, the FGR responded on December 17 to the document in which it was requested to know if the Public Ministry  has requested any Mexican judge an arrest warrant against Joaquín Guzmán López and explain why crimes.

Joaquín Guzmán López, 34, was practically an unknown character as a member  of the Sinaloa cartel; however, his name appeared at a time when that of his brother Ovid became one of the main objectives of the US authorities to combat money laundering operations and fentanyl traffic to that nation.

Another relevant case is that of the businessman Francisco Álvarez Murphy Alarcón, who submitted a request for public information to which the folio 0001700562019 was assigned in which he refers:

in my own right, I appear before you with due respect to expose: inform me of the investigation folders and / or number of attention and / or inquiries instructed against me, as well as indicating date and time for the subscriber to have access to the proceedings and appear in the investigation and / or number of attention and / or folder of investigation followed against me.

In 2018, Laboratorios Imperiales Pharma SA de CV signed two contracts with the Ministry of Health for double viral (measles and rubella) and triple viral (measles, rubella and mumps) vaccines, and as determined by the Ministry of Public Administration, the company He completely failed to comply with the first, which included more than 773 thousand doses, and the second was missing one of four deliveries. The products arrived in Mexico, but their use was not authorized by the Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris).

On August 6, in the  Official Gazette of the Federation, the notice was issued to government agencies to refrain from signing contracts with that Mexican company.

A third case in which the information applicant provides data for identification in the petition was located on folio 0001700540819, and although his name does not appear,but indicated:  

in my own right as the accused, a fact that was made known to me through the freezing of accounts of the Financial Intelligence Unit and the various media that associate me with the poblano governor Rafael Moreno Valle and assure me I am being investigated, and then, he requested  access to the investigation folder that works against me and Let me consult the investigation.

In all cases, including those mentioned, the FGR responded that it cannot give access to the content of its investigations to the applicants, until as long as the Public Ministry summons them to the initial hearing, that is, until the case is in the hands of a judge and assess the evidence provided and determine whether to link them to process or not.