"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat
The multimillion dollar fraud involving false invoices made by Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga and the tv host Inés Gómez Mont is just beginning and has already arrested illustrious Juarez characters linked to the prosecution of Justice and underworld combat.
One is the now billionaire Eduardo Guerrero Duran, Former Head of Ceresos at the local and National Level and Jorge Nava Lopez, former Prosecutor of Justice in Ciudad Juarez in the government of Javier Corral.
Both are wanted with arrest warrants by the FGR, in relation to the gigantic fraud with false bills involving high personalities of economic and political power in Mexico.
According to Reforma article published on Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the arrest of 10 people involved, including five former senior officials of the federal prison system in the last six-year term.
Iván Aarón Zeferín Hernández, control judge of the Federal Criminal Justice Center of Almoloya de Juárez, based in the Altiplano Prison, deviated the apprehensions for the crimes of organized crime and money laundering, but denied them for the crime of embezzlement.
In this case, a triangulation of 2,950 million pesos is attributed to billing companies allegedly linked to Álvarez Puga, money that would come from two large contracts granted by the Deconcentrated Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Rehabilitation (OADPRS).
One of them is due to the acquisition of the Command, Control, Computing, Coordination, Alerting and Intelligence Center System of the OADPRS for federal prisons of the Altiplano, West, Northeast, Northwest, East, Southeast, North-Northwest, North-West, North and the Federal Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center of Morelos.
The other agreement is the acquisition of the interconnection of the Federal Centers of Social Rehabilitation of Sonora, the Women's prisons of Morelos and that of Michoacán.
According to reports collected, the main former official wanted by the Attorney General's Office is Eduardo Guerrero Durán, who was commissioner of the OADPRS, between September 2015 and October 2016.
Paulo Uribe Arriaga, former director general of Administration, and Emmanuel Castillo Ruiz, who served as head of the General Coordination of Federal Centers of the same agency, between September 2015 and September of the following year, are also fugitives from justice.
The others are Jesús Gabriel Pérez Rodríguez, former general director of Technological Development; and Jorge Arnaldo Nava López, former general director of the Coordination, Control, Command, Computing, Alerting and Intelligence Center of the OADPRS in 2016.
That particular case refers to the multi-year contracts granted in 2010 and 2011 by the management of Genaro García Luna in the Federal Secretariat of Public Security, so that the companies ICA, Arendal, Prodemex, GIA, Homez and Tradeco installed a prison infrastructure with a capacity for 20,000 inmates.
Jorge Nava has not been formally relieved of office in Ciudad Juarez by the new Prosecutor Roberto Fierro and is considered a fugitive from the FGR.
2,950 million pesos is $145,194.40. Damn that is a whole lot of shmoneyies. The officials really know how to get paid
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