Panama deports Carlos Ahumada to Paraguay; Mexico didn’t request extradition

Carlos Ahumada, Argentine businessman, ex-husband of former federal official Rosario Robles, was arrested early Friday morning at an airport in Panama.

In keeping with Danilo Iglesias, a Panamanian journalist from Radio Mía, the arrest was carried out attributable to a global search request from Interpol on the request of the Authorities of Mexico.

“We have now simply been confirmed that Carlos Ahumada, an Argentine businessman residing in Mexico and naturalized, is detained by Immigration in our nation,” he mentioned in an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva for Radio Method.

Ahumada obtained a provisional suspension a month in the past to keep away from arrest in Mexico Metropolis.

In August 2019, Carlos Ahumada was arrested in Argentina on the request of the Lawyer Basic’s Workplace (FGR).

The Argentine Federal Police detained the businessman on the Aeroparque when he was supposedly getting ready to depart the nation.

His arrest was carried out attributable to tax fraud that he most likely dedicated towards the Public Treasury of Mexico, for the quantity of 1 million 472,236 pesos, for Earnings Tax (ISR) that he ought to have recognized about and it didn’t.

Just a few days later, the businessman was launched by a choose in that nation, who thought of the case towards him “absurd.”

After his launch, the FGR assured that the businessman was nonetheless needed by the Mexican authorities for the grievance of tax fraud.

Ahumada, who was emotionally concerned with Rosario Robles, was one of many authors of the so-called video scandals of 2004, which implicated PRD members and collaborators of the then head of Authorities, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in acts of corruption.

These scandals led to René Bejarano, who was serving that yr as chief of the PRD bench within the Legislative Meeting of Mexico Metropolis, being imprisoned.

Ahumada, after being arrested in Cuba on account of these occasions in March 2004, confessed that Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Diego Fernández de Cevallos and the lawyer Juan Collado have been behind the concept of ​​​​disseminating these movies.