FGR issues an apology for statements by the head of the AIC

Mexico City. The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) issued a public apology regarding the statements made by the head of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) Felipe de Jesús Gallo Gutiérrez, who stated that Mexico is a “champion” in fentanyl production, and He assured that the official used “an inappropriate word to highlight the long history and magnitude of the fight against synthetic drugs in Mexico, relating that issue to the current fentanyl problem.”

The above, after in his morning conference, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that these were “alarmists”, and pointed out that Gallo Gutiérrez’s statements had to be resolved by the FGR.

The AIC indicated that last Tuesday, at the Multilateral Conference on Synthetic Drugs, which took place in Mexico City, Felipe de Jesús Gallo Gutiérrez, “in part of his speech, used an inappropriate word.”

According to the AIC “it is evident that said word”, which was taken by an international news agency and a Mexican news outlet, “was inappropriate; and, for this reason, Gallo publicly apologizes; explaining that the purpose, in which he obviously should not have used that word, was to highlight the long legal fight that our country has had to carry out to combat the production, transfer and export of synthetic drugs.

In its statement, the AIC of the FGR said that Gallo Gutiérrez “also pointed out how US agencies have been able to coordinate and work under the regulations of our country, carrying out joint investigations, within a monitored and acceptable legal framework. , which has allowed enormous seizures of said synthetic drugs and weapons; all of this with the help of the Mexican Armed Forces and the National Guard.”

The version of the Criminal Investigation agency states that Gallo Gutiérrez “warned of all the dangers posed by international networks that try to industrialize the production and export of drugs; and what has been done to address it, which is a task that, undoubtedly, is also worthy of attention and recognition.”

The AIC indicated that “it will take careful care of the information it issues, so that a situation like the one already mentioned is not repeated.”