The first installment of this column unleashed a series of intimidation attempts against me by businessman and tennis player Oliver Fernández Mena, identified as the new 4T financier. First, his lawyer sent a letter addressed to the directors of this newspaper requesting the right of reply, but in it he threatened to denounce me on several occasions. Then, throughout the week, he sent messengers to tell me that he was preparing an unprecedented legal strategy. The tone rose as the days passed. Other messengers related to the media began to ask for my phone number, asking where they could find me, who I was, where I had come from. Finally, a warning: that his team would scratch him in public and private to find something for me.
To all that: journalism.
Within the federal government that Oliver Fernández Mena now seeks to satisfy at any cost, they have a couple of files on him. In the first appears the list of characters to whom he has allegedly transferred his fortune, according to the investigation.
It is headed by Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, former Secretary of Communications and Transportation in the government of Enrique Peña Nieto, who died in April 2020 after suffering a stroke. They are followed by Alfredo Castillo, ex-commissioner for peace in Michoacán, during the same six-year term. He is one of her few friends and partner on the courts. Also appearing are former governors Héctor Astudillo, from Guerrero with the PRI, and Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, from Tamaulipas with the PAN. The link with the latter and that appears in the file is Liliana Fernández Mena, identified as Oliver’s sister, through contracts for social issues.
The same federal government investigation brings a bombshell: Oliver Fernández Mena financed part of Tomás Zerón’s survival in his flight to Israel. In September 2020, President López Obrador himself revealed that the former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency had escaped from Mexico, while the Attorney General of the Republic prepared arrest warrants against him for leading the alleged torture in the Ayotzinapa case and modifying the evidence.
Finally, his supposed link to Pejeleaks appears, the portal that attacked López Obrador during his presidential candidacy in 2018. The investigation connects Oliver Fernández Mena as the main financier of Javier Razo Tangassi. Both are accused of having kept files, mainly those of Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller and her family.
The other file, according to federal government sources, talks about current affairs. He mentions Oliver Fernández Mena as the author of a money placement scheme for Mexican businessmen in the United States with attractive returns. This second investigation points to a real estate developer named Masoud Shojaee, CEO of Shoma Group. According to what was analyzed, Oliver Fernández Mena gathers the money pull and delivers it as the sole investor.
This second investigation includes an analysis of what the authority calls “debt removal.” The same sources explain it as follows: “Oliver is investigated for eliminating the debts of people who applied for loans from Crédito Real, the company of which he is a part. If the debt is for 10 million, Oliver asks for a percentage in exchange for erasing the history to the detriment of the company.
The last part of this investigation addresses two aspects: a movement of more than 120 million pesos and that would connect Oliver Fernández Mena with Julio Scherer Ibarra, former legal adviser to the López Obrador presidency. The other is the approach of the tennis player to buy the soccer team of the Red Sharks of Veracruz.
Stent: Diana Alarcón, a very close operator of Claudia Sheinbaum, who still works in the Mexico City government as general coordinator of advisers, requested a table this Thursday, July 20, at the Diana restaurant of the St. Regis hotel. At the stroke of 10 p.m., she met two men with Colombian accents. They planned strategies in social networks.
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2023-07-23 14:59:42
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