Within the final presidential debate, Sergio Carmona’s title got here up within the dialog. (Screenshot/DARKQUART)
Through the third and last presidential debate, opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez launched a severe accusation by assuring that Mario Delgado, nationwide chief of Morena, is underneath legal investigation in the USA for alleged hyperlinks to organized crime and hydrocarbon trafficking.
In response to the candidate of the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition, the investigation includes Delgado for his alleged affiliation with Sergio Carmona, a Tamaulipas businessman linked to hydrocarbon trafficking, and who was murdered in November 2021.
“The enterprise consisted of bringing gasoline from the USA to Mexico, with out paying taxes,” stated the candidate. She additionally talked about that Julio Carmona, Sergio’s brother, was appointed as administrator of the Reynosa customs, facilitating smuggling and producing a lack of 700 billion pesos to the Mexican treasury.
Through the third presidential debate, Xóchitl Gálvez assured that the US is investigating Mario Delgado for alleged acts of huchicol. (X/@Xochitl2024)
In response, Mario Delgado categorically denied the accusations and challenged Gálvez to current proof. “Evidently not [hay investigación], as a result of in the event that they investigated me they might have made some request and they might not have let me enter. I simply was with Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum; We went to go to our migrant compatriots in Los Angeles,” stated Delgado in an interview for Milenio Televisión.
Within the Tercer Grado program, Delgado described Gálvez’s statements as a part of “the technique of lies” and warranted that he would contact the US authorities to confirm the statements.
As well as, he instructed that Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca was behind the accusations, whom he identified as a “fugitive from justice” and instructed that Gálvez was appearing “determined and drained” because of the electoral contest.
That is how Mario Delgado responded on networks. (Screenshot)
Sergio Carmona Angulo, often known as “The King of Huachicol,” was a businessman who left a mark on the political and enterprise panorama of Mexico. His loss of life on November 22, 2021 in a barbershop in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, ended a profession stuffed with accusations of corruption, smuggling, and shut ties to predominant political forces.
Carmona Angulo, collectively together with his brother Julio César, ran varied development firms akin to Grupo Industrial Permart, Grupo Industrial Joser and Consultoría Reymar, which carried out works in Reynosa and different areas of Tamaulipas.
Through the June 6, 2021 elections, the brothers have been accused of illegally financing the campaigns of a number of Morena candidates, together with Carlos Peña Ortiz, the previous mayor of Reynosa and son of Maki Ortiz, a former gubernatorial candidate.
The allegations of financing transcended different municipalities akin to Nuevo Laredo and Tampico, and journalist Salvador García Soto acknowledged that this assist was not free, however that the Carmonas have been linked to get together figures akin to Mario Delgado, nationwide president of Morena, and the then Senator Américo Villarreal. Likewise, they maintained robust ties with Erasmo González, a deputy with whom they shared a relationship of friendship and political collaboration, as he detailed in his column revealed in El Common.
Sergio Carmona was murdered in November 2021. (Picture: Twitter/@PedroCa15010202)
Mario Delgado was a recurring character within the testimonies about Sergio Carmona, as Carlos Loret de Mola additionally identified in a number of of his columns years in the past.
Delgado allegedly used providers supplied by the businessman, akin to flights on non-public planes – at the very least twice documented – and benefited from Carmona’s monetary assist. This relationship included not solely the Morenista but additionally a number of different politicians, who used luxurious autos that belonged to Carmona’s firms.
Previous to his ties to Morena, Carmona additionally had vital relationships with politicians from the Nationwide Motion Social gathering (PAN) in Tamaulipas. He carried out infrastructure works underneath the administration of César Verástegui Ostos, “El Truco”, then Secretary of the Authorities and candidate for governor for the PAN. Nonetheless, tensions in these ties led him to vary political sides.
Witnesses additionally counsel that Carmona would have sought the safety of US authorities, providing them details about corruption in Tamaulipas. This technique, based on Loret de Mola, was allegedly attributable to a betrayal that he suffered by the hands of a high-ranking official of the state administration, who didn’t adjust to promised funds for the development of a hospital.
Sergio Carmona would have directed a huachicol community, based on journalistic investigations. (Infobae Archive)
The truth of Sergio Carmona Angulo was not restricted to his political affect. In response to Reforma, he and his firms have been underneath the radar of the Monetary Intelligence Unit (UIF) for crimes of hydrocarbon smuggling and cash laundering. In June 2022, the USA Division of Justice additionally opened an investigation right into a gasoline trafficking community centered on the Carmona brothers.
Within the months earlier than his homicide, accusations resurfaced, indicating that Carmona financed a number of political campaigns in varied Mexican states, and it was even talked about that he paid for Mario Delgado’s marketing campaign. This closeness with Delgado was confirmed once more when journalist Héctor de Mauleón, in his column in El Common, acknowledged that there have been images of the Morena chief with Carmona, presumably earlier than boarding a personal plane.
In response to different journalistic publications, Carmona Angulo additionally had hyperlinks with Ricardo Peralta Saucedo, who was Undersecretary of the Inside and who was accused of constructing “favor funds” to Carmona throughout his tenure as Common Administrator of Customs.
As well as, it’s highlighted that with the assistance of Erasmo González and Américo Villarreal, Sergio Carmona managed to acquire contracts valued at greater than 330 million pesos from the Mexican Social Safety Institute (IMSS) and the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SCT). ) through the first years of the six-year time period of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
