Mexico Metropolis. The Monetary Intelligence Unit (UIF) has been investigating the Latinus enterprise consortium since 2021 for cash laundering and corruption crimes, its head, Pablo Gómez Álvarez, introduced on Wednesday.
At President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s morning press convention on the Nationwide Palace, Gómez Álvarez defined that based mostly on alerts issued by Mexican banks relating to uncommon monetary actions and knowledge obtained by way of monetary intelligence, it was detected that there are cash triangulations and a fraud scheme during which the 5 corporations that make up the Latinus consortium are concerned.
“We do not make issues up, we merely have instrumental corporations that obtain sources for the acquisition of journalistic providers immediately or by way of three corporations that promote medical or well being providers to federal entities,” defined the pinnacle of the UIF.
He mentioned that the shareholders of Latinus are being investigated, particularly the one who seems to be the proprietor of the consortium: Cristian González Guadarrama. He additionally dominated out the chance that Carlos Loret de Mola or different journalists who work for Latinus are included within the criticism filed with the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace by the UIF for the irregularities noticed.
He confirmed a desk indicating that the enterprise consortium has obtained public funds since 2019 from the state governments of the state of Mexico, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas and Hidalgo.
He added that these governments paid for supposed well being providers to 2 corporations of the Latinus consortium and that these funds have been then triangulated throughout the enterprise group itself to pay shareholders and journalists.
The overall quantity proven within the desk is 2 billion 437 million 285 thousand 272 pesos with 96 cents, obtained between 2019 and 2024, a discovering that resulted within the criticism filed by the UIF for cash laundering and corruption crimes.
Gómez Álvarez defined that based mostly on the evaluation of the knowledge obtained by the UIF, a “triangulation operation was noticed, with which 117 million of these hundreds of thousands have been moved between corporations of the identical proprietor after which they’ll clearly see the place the keys to the operations with sources of illicit origin are, clearly to cover the origin and goal.”
“The premise for submitting a criticism should be what the monetary system stories to the UIF. We don’t conduct investigations, we do not need any data or information in relation to what the media, journalists individually or folks on open networks, say, categorical or in any approach point out,” Gómez Álvarez harassed.
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– 2024-07-06 04:02:23
