Segalmex case: two others were linked to the process for their alleged participation in the millionaire embezzlement

Segalmex has been designated as the Master Scam of the Fourth Transformation due to the various irregularities that have occurred in it (Twitter/ @SegalmexDiconsa)

For the millionaire embezzlement that occurred in Mexican Food Security (Segalmex), the authorities linked two other people to the process related to the case of the simulation of the purchase of 7,840 tons of sugar valued at more than 142 million pesos.

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Said accusation was achieved by the Specialized Prosecutor for Organized Crime (FEMDO) and determined by the control judge of the Federal Criminal Justice Center in Almoloya de Juárez, Gregorio Salazar Hernández.

They are Roberto Rivera Ramos, former assistant manager of the Commercial Department of Diconsa in the state of Querétaro, and Gonzalo Mora Nateras in particular, who would have been part of the money laundering scheme through the company Servicios Integrales Carregín, SA de CV

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These were linked to the process for organized crime crimes and, in the case of Mora, also for money laundering. The justice administrator gave a period of three months for the development of the complementary investigation, together with the ratification of the informal preventive detention so that they remain in the Federal Center for Social Readaptation 1 in Almoloya de Juárez.

9 people have been arrested out of the 22 arrest warrants obtained by the FGR (special)

In this case, nine people have been arrested after searches in the states of Querétaro, the State of Mexico, Guanajuato and Mexico City, of which only six have been prosecuted and another 13 arrests remain pending as they are fugitives from justice.

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Between Friday March 10 and Sunday March 12, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) arrested at least five implicated, including Gonzalo Mora and Rivera Ramos, which was announced by the organization Mexicanos Contra Corruption and Impunity (MCCI).

It was on March 9 that the Prosecutor’s Office, headed by Alejandro Gertz Manero, announced that 22 arrest warrants had been obtained against those involved in the millionaire diversion against Segalmex.

Since they are involved in contracts and payments made with irregularities for more than 142 million pesos for the purchase of sugar whose destination is unknown and it could not be proven that it was delivered to Segalmex.

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“This entire group of alleged perpetrators of the aforementioned crimes entered into illegal contracts and illegal payments in the amount of 142 million 440 thousand 883 pesos, for an alleged acquisition of 7 thousand 840 tons of sugar, which would be used for the benefit of the population of the country and those who were never able to prove that they had been legally handed over to said state company,” the Prosecutor’s Office indicated.

Of these, 12 are former public servants of the parastatal; four, members of the companies that would have colluded and six the beneficiaries of the resources diverted from the agency.

In addition to those mentioned above, Carlos Antonio Dávila Amerena, who was head of the General Directorate for the Execution of Sanctions of the Administrative and Decentralized Body for Prevention and Social Readaptation (OADPRS); Laura Patricia Hernández Rojas, former coordinator of the Budget Management; Simón Escobar Copca and Artemio Gutiérrez Rodríguez, both managers of Diconsa’s rural warehouse in San Luis de la Paz in the state of Guanajuato.

While of the people related to the company Servicios Integrales Caregín, José Miguel Ojeda Antonio and Jorge Saúl Romero Valencia were captured. This failed to deliver the sugar despite having received payment for 142 million pesos.

In addition to this, the Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) pointed out that there are irregularities that exceed 840 million pesos in the public accounts from 2019 to 2020.

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