Almost two years after the federal government began to combat the theft of fuel in pipelines of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and discovered a network of officials that supported the illegal theft of fuel, federal authorities indicated that the Attorney General’s Office ( FGR) continues the procedures for the government of Canada to locate and arrest General Eduardo León Trauwitz, former deputy director of Strategic Safeguarding of the parastatal.
The former bodyguard of President Enrique Peña Nieto has been considered a fugitive from justice since May 14, 2019, when a control judge of the Federal Criminal Justice Center in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico, ordered his arrest for organized crime with the purpose of committing crimes in the matter of hydrocarbons.
The military man was detected in Canada, however his arrest for extradition purposes has not been finalized, so the Mexican authorities continue negotiations through diplomatic mechanisms so that the Canadian police approve the arrest and that the military be made available. of a judge.
According to the information obtained, the Seido keeps the investigation open to detect if there are others involved in the corruption network that allowed criminal groups to reuse clandestine intakes in Pemex pipelines that supposedly had been closed in an artisanal way by personnel who worked in the Subdirectorate of Strategic Safeguarding of Pemex.
Currently there are six co-defendants of León Trauwitz imprisoned in the Federal Center for Social Readaptation Number 1, Altiplano, in the municipality of Almoloya de Juárez, among them Brigadier General Socrates Alfredo Herrera Pegueros, Colonel Emilio Cozgaya, Oziel Aldana Portugal and Sergeants Ramón Márquez Ledezma, from the Department of Physical Security in Cadereyta, and José Carlos Sánchez Echavarría, former coordinator of the Submanagement of Strategic Safeguarding of Petróleos Mexicanos in Tampico, Tamaulipas.
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