Lawyer Juan Collado Mocelo -detained since 2019 for the crimes of money laundering and organized crime– denounced the former legal adviser of the Presidency, Julio Scherer Ibarraas well as three more lawyers and a financial operator for the crimes of extortion, criminal association, money laundering and influence peddling, according to the newspaper Reforma published this Sunday.
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In response, Scherer Ibarra denied the accusations of an alleged extortion carried out by lawyers “close” to him against Juan Colladoin addition to stating that he does not know him personally.
Via Twitter, Scherer acknowledged having received the children of Juan Collado“at their express request” and pointed out that he turned to the FGR the matter of the lawyer arrested by money laundering and organized crime.
In relation to the report published today in the Reforma newspaper, in which remarks are made about me, I make the following clarifications:
– Julio Scherer (@JScherer_Ibarra) February 27, 2022
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“I do not know Mr. Collado personally, nor am I aware of his conversations with his lawyers. Everything else is bad faith inferences,” the former official wrote.
3.- I do not personally know Mr. Collado, nor am I aware of his conversations with his lawyers.
Everything else is bad faith inference.
– Julio Scherer (@JScherer_Ibarra) February 27, 2022
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For his part, the former head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), Santiago Nieto, also denied that during his administration they closed files related to Collado.
“Regarding the recent publication in some media, I categorically point out that during my tenure at the head of the FIU no files were closed against any person. In fact, institutionally I filed two complaints against Juan Collado one on 07/04/19 and another on 09/03/20,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
Regarding the recent publication in some media, I categorically point out that during my tenure at the head of the #UIF no files were closed against any person. In fact, institutionally I filed two complaints against Juan Collado, one on 07/04/19 and the other on 09/03/20.
– Santiago Nieto (@SNietoCastillo) February 27, 2022
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This Sunday, the newspaper Reforma published the complaint de Collado in which the lawyer details that allegedly Scherer Ibarra offered to get him a compensation agreement of 2 thousand millions of pesos to get him out of jail.
He also accuses that a group of lawyers, presumably linked to Scherer, asked him to sell Liberty Box to Banco Afirme, owned by Julio Villarreal Guajardo, allegedly a friend of the then legal adviser.
