‘Alito’ granted protection against request for removal of immunity

Mexico City. The Investigative Section of the Chamber of Deputies was notified that a federal judge granted an injunction to the national leader of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno, against the request for removal of immunity filed by the Attorney General’s Office of Campeche in August 2022 for alleged illicit enrichment, reported Deputy Leonel Godoy (Morena).

Asked if Alito’s case could be taken up again by the next legislature, which begins in September, the former governor of Michoacán said: “I’m going to check, but I was just informed that (Moreno) won an injunction. It seems that this is the result of the dinner in December,” he said ironically, alluding to the alleged meeting that the PRI deputy had that month with the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Norma Piña.

In an interview at the end of the fourth regular meeting of the Jurisdictional Commission, Godoy confirmed that the appeal is against the request for removal of immunity from the Campeche Prosecutor’s Office, although he said that he still does not know the substance of the resolution of this case. “We will see, we will find out in what terms it comes,” he said.

He said that once he is informed of the content of the appeal, he will provide more information on the matter on Wednesday during the session of the Permanent Commission.

Godoy said that the requests for impeachment that were filed during the current Legislature “are still alive and will be taken up again” by the next one, which begins in September.

During the session of the Jurisdictional Court, both Godoy and Jaime Humberto Pérez Bernabe, president of the Investigative Section, and Olimpia Girón, both from Morena, stressed the need for the next Legislature to approve a bill sent by the Senate and already in San Lázaro to create a new federal law on political trials and declaration of origin, which would repeal the current Federal Law on the Responsibilities of Public Servants.

The above, they stressed, is due to the fact that this last norm “maintains a serial far-fetched series of procedures that do not have justice as their goal, but rather create possibilities for a corrupt official to find loopholes and evade the imposition of a sanction. It is an anachronistic law, riddled with legal loopholes and incompatible with the ideals of combating corruption and impunity.”

Conflicting versions about Alito

The notification that Alejandro Moreno had obtained an injunction against the request for removal of immunity from the Campeche Prosecutor’s Office contrasts with what Pérez Bernabe stated this Tuesday at noon, who admitted that the Investigative Section was unable to process the aforementioned request because the file for it never reached its hands.

Interviewed earlier today, at the end of the session of the Instructor, Pérez Bernabe insisted that “the only issue we had was from the Morelos Prosecutor’s Office,” referring to the case of the prosecutor of that state, Uriel Carmona Gándara, who was stripped of his immunity by the Plenary of the Chamber on December 14, 2023.

When asked repeatedly whether Alito’s file had reached the investigating judge, the legislator only replied that at that stage “we could only determine what we had in our hands.”