Pemex accuses María Amparo Casar, of Mexicans vs. Corruption, fraud for 31 million pesos – El Financiero

The director of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Octavio Romero Oropeza, accused María Amparo Casar, president of the organization Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI), of having been complicit in a corruption case against the state company for 31 million pesos.

“This is an important case, because it is a case of corruption led by those who claim to fight corruption or by those who lead Mexicans, they say they are against corruption, but in reality they are in favor of corruption,” said the official during the morning conference on May 3.

The accusation against María Amparo Casar indicates that she illegally collected a pension of 124,948 pesos per month following the death of her husband, Carlos Fernando Márquez Padilla. She is also expected to receive financial support for funeral expenses and life insurance payments.

Romero Oropeza explained that said pension should not be granted since the worker Márquez Padilla did not die accidentally, but rather committed suicide by jumping from a company building in 2004. However, Casar received support from the authorities to ignore the investigations. experts, assured the Pemex director.

“All this was before there was an expert opinion. The Pemex directors treated him as an accident, omitting to wait for the ruling, but the Public Ministry finally decided that it had been a suicide,” the official explained.

“They modified the ruling, so that it did not look like suicide but rather like an accident so that the insurance payment as well as the retirement payment could proceed, but it was resolved that it was a suicide,” he added.

Romero Oropeza indicated that after the case of corruption was detected, the payment of the pension in favor of María Amparo Casar was suspended and complaints were made against the Pemex officials involved, this with the purpose of recovering all the money that was awarded.

“There are various actions in process because we are trying to recover the amounts unduly paid, which are estimated at more than 31 million pesos, as well as hold the public servants involved responsible,” concluded the director of Pemex.

What was María Amparo Casar’s response?

María Amparo Casar accused President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of using the government apparatus to “slander and defame people,” and mentioned that the payment of her widow’s pension was suspended since last February.

“It is not the first time that he has mentioned this case, I have a count (…), he has defamed me and mentioned my name more than 60 times so far this six-year term,” accused the president of MCCI in an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva.

“You can imagine how painful it is for me (to relive this case) and now it turns out that I went from being a victim of injustice (…) and now I have become the criminal,” she added.

In response, Casar pointed out that on page 100 of the book Gracias, written by President López Obrador, “a bunch of lies” is mentioned.

“It says that I met with Bernardo Bátiz to ask him to alter the minutes (…) so that he could collect the insurance and then the pension,” he accused.

“Now it turns out that according to him, I went with Bátiz, I used my influence and got them to change the minutes of the Attorney General’s Office. I have never attended (…) in my 40 years of professional career (…). That his strong point is not revenge, I question that,” the writer concluded.