Through two newspapers with the largest national circulation, it was revealed that the FGR received a complaint against Santiago Nieto for alleged illicit enrichment and that the UIF is investigating the attorney general, Alejandro Gertz, for millionaire expenses.
The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) released this Monday, through two newspapers with the largest circulation, leaks on investigations against those who led them in the last three years.
The FGR received an anonymous complaint for alleged illicit enrichment from the former head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), Santiago Nieto Castillo, while this institution revealed an investigation against the current attorney general, Alejandro Gertz Manero, in which it indicates that he spent more of 109 million pesos in a single year.
Reforma reported this Monday that on December 2 the anonymous complaint about Nieto’s alleged illicit enrichment was filed with the FGR and the Office of the Parties stamped receipt with folio 00951.
This is because during the 25 months that Santiago Nieto was head of the FIU, he acquired four properties and a luxury car for an amount of 40 million pesos, although his net salary was 107 thousand 358 pesos.
On the other hand, on the same day El Universal released a report from the UIF, in which Gertz Manero’s wealth is documented and reveals that in eight years the prosecutor obtained resources that allowed him to spend more than 109 million pesos in a single year .
According to the newspaper, the prosecutor spent the money buying luxury cars and making international bank transfers between 2013 and 2014, as well as handling millionaire amounts in checks and cash.
However, the Financial Intelligence Unit assured this Monday that the alleged “report”, which documents the wealth of the prosecutor and of which the note from El Universal speaks, “does not exist.”
Through an information card, the agency assured that the note published “about an alleged ‘investigation’ report that would involve C. Alejandro Gertz Manero, is completely false.”
Nieto’s properties, acquired for “mortgage credit”
According to the Reforma investigation, during his tenure at the FIU, Nieto Castillo bought between 2019 and 2020: a house of 24 million pesos in the Álvaro Obregón mayor’s office, in Mexico City; another house in Querétaro to the Urbana company – of which his brother is the legal representative and construction manager – for one million 600 thousand pesos; an apartment in Santa Fe, for 8 million 200 thousand pesos and a late-model Audi car, with a value of half a million pesos.
Regarding the residence in Álvaro Obregón, the former head of the FIU informed the media that it had a cost of 24 million pesos and that it was acquired through a “joint mortgage loan”, together with his wife, the electoral counselor Carla Humphrey, in which both parties add their income to access a greater amount.
However, the former official already owed a loan from a house in San Jerónimo that he acquired in 2008 for 6 million pesos; As revealed by Reforma, its 2018 equity statement indicated that it had a debt of one million 125 thousand 970 pesos.
Faced with the accusations, Nieto Castillo explained that the properties were included in his declaration before the SAT and in his declaration of assets before the Ministry of Public Function.
He clarified that the properties were acquired for a 20-year mortgage. He also pointed out that the apartment in Santa Fe and the house in Querétaro are for rent, so their payment covers a large part of the monthly loan payments.
“There is nothing to hide. My debts increased, not my assets ”, he wrote through his Twitter account,“ I am a man of principles and values who has always fought against corruption, impunity and the abuse of power ”.
A study consulted by Reforma and which was delivered to federal authorities for the review of Nieto’s financial situation, carried out a simulation of the mortgage loans of the properties and indicated that the monthly amounts of all the loans would be about 313 thousand pesos, equivalent triple your salary as head of the FIU.
Gertz Manero: expenses on cars and international transfers
According to an investigation by the UIF, revealed by El Universal, Alejandro Gertz Manero spent more than 109 million pesos in a single year. First, between 2014 and 2015 the purchase of “122 luxury vehicles for 109 million 775 thousand 399.30 pesos” was detected, among which the Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce brands stand out.
In addition, there were shipments for 4 million 319 thousand 755.60 pesos and they were addressed to Mercedes Gertz in a Wells Fargo account, in the United States, with the concept of “credit for expenses.”
According to the disclosed report, in 2013 the attorney general transferred 103 thousand euros to Spain, equivalent to 2.4 million pesos at the current exchange rate, to an account in the name of Desarrollo de Organizaciones Inmobiliarias SA de CV
The FIU indicated that in the same period Gertz Manero received $ 4 million from a Bank of America account and $ 37,858.95 from the University of the Americas AC
Likewise, between 2013 and 2021, the prosecutor received 38 million 959 thousand 144.81 pesos through interbank electronic payments. Along the same lines, the Unit identified between 2015 and 2021 a checking account for 34 million 347 thousand 182 pesos.
In consultation with El Universal, the FGR declined to comment on this matter. It should be noted that Alejandro Gertz Manero has not allowed the dissemination of his wealth declaration, since he has only given his consent to disclose his curricular data.
What we do at Animal Político requires professional journalists, teamwork, maintaining a dialogue with readers and something very important: independence. You can help us to continue. Be part of the team. Subscribe to Animal Político, receive benefits and support free journalism. c
–
