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Staff Agencia Reforma
MEXICO CITY.-The director of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), Manuel Bartlett Díaz, has pending accounts in the US for the kidnapping, torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, assured the Department of Justice of That country.
Process published that Bartlett would have to make many clarifications about why different witnesses – who even do not know each other – insist on involving him in the case in an ongoing investigation.
“His name appears on numerous occasions and on several pages of the records of the open investigation of the Camarena case. If he enters the United States, he would be detained for questioning, “one of the US officials told the weekly newspaper.
“Mr. Bartlett knows that his name has been mentioned during the decades that this investigation has been ongoing and that is why he would have to testify before a Grand Jury,” another official from the United States Department of Justice added to the magazine.
The case documents mention the current CFE director as a participant in meetings with drug traffickers and officials before the kidnapping and after the Camarena murder.
The interview with the officials of the US Department of Justice was carried out at the request of the magazine to inquire about the authenticity of three fragments of an official file on the Camarena murder, which is sealed in federal court in California, It indicated.
“The officials confirmed the authenticity of the fragments obtained by Proceso. In them, several declarants – whose names appear tested – involve Bartlett in the murder of the DEA agent when he served as Secretary of the Interior of Mexico from 1983 to 1988, ”the weekly reports.
It was added that next to Bartlett’s name appear those of other high officials of the Government of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, such as General Juan Arévalo Gardoqui, Secretary of National Defense, and José Antonio Zorrilla Pérez, director of the defunct Federal Security Directorate (DFS).
On different occasions, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has defended Bartlett’s work.
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