The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, asked this Friday Televisa and Tv Azteca, the two largest television stations in the country, to explain their alleged corruption scandals in the United States that have involved their top managers.
“They would have to explain it, they would have to inform first,” said the leader, when questioned about the subject in her morning conference, which this Friday took place in the northern state of Baja California Sur. A journalist asked the president about the controversies that broke out this week with respect to the two largest television stations in Mexico, which have a presence in the United States and other countries in America.
Emilio Azcárraga Jean, executive president of the Televisa Group Board, the largest media conglomerate in Latin America, requested a leave of absence on Thursday while an investigation is carried out by the United States Department of Justice in relation to the International Association of Football Federation (FIFA). .
The case, initially revealed by Televisa on August 30, involves alleged bribes to FIFA executives to obtain the broadcasting rights for the World Cup soccer matches. 2018, 2022, 2026 y 2030. Sheinbaum did not talk about this specific case, but he did point out the controversy of Tv Azteca about American investment funds that began arbitration against the Mexican State within the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC) before the International Center Dispute Settlement (ICSID).
The funds Cyrus Capital Partners and Contrarian Capital Management accuse the Mexican Judiciary of protecting the owner, the controversial magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego, so that did not finish paying the 400 million dollars in debt securities that it issued in 2017 and stopped paying in 2021.
The president held the Judiciary responsible for this case, although the lawsuit is against the Mexican State. “The private claim is to the (Supreme) Court for having ruled against or having granted protection,” he said.
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