The defense of the former director of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Emilio Lozoya, requested a seventh extension, this time for 60 days, to try to avoid the trial for Odebrecht and Agro Nitrogenized.
This Wednesday, December 8, a hearing will be held in federal courts of the North Prison of Mexico City where Lozoya is being held, and in which the judge will review both issues.
Last Friday, the sixth extension that Lozoya’s defense had requested from Judge Artemio Zúñiga expired to close the investigation that would be completed in the cases Odebrecht and Agro Nitrogenized.
For this reason, Lozoya’s lawyers presented a document requesting Judge Zúñiga a new postponement of 60 days to the complementary investigation.
The irregular sale of the plant Agro Nitrogenized It was exhibited in 2017 by the then leader of Morena, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who accused a “big deal” in the purchase and sale of the plant; argued that it was a “junk” industry and despite this it was sold to Pemex, at a cost of 200 million dollars.
After his electoral victory in 2018, President López Obrador revealed that there was a complaint for this case in the PGR (currently General Prosecutor of the Republic), and since 2019 the investigation began. This led to the Prosecutor’s Office requesting and obtaining an arrest warrant against the businessman Alonso Ancira and the former director of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya.
The FGR argues that the purchase of the plant located in the Pajaritos complex, Veracruz, meant a financial deterioration of 4,206 million 652,220 pesos for Pemex Fertilizantes Pacifico SA de CV, plus 578 million pesos that it allocated to capitalize Agroindustrias and meet debt commitments and operation, in addition to Mexican oil had a negative impact on his assets by having allocated about 150 million 862,375 dollars.
In a complaint he filed last year, Lozoya accuses the former president Enrique Peña Nieto and the former Secretary of the Treasury, Luis Videgaray, to know and allow a bribery network for at least 10 million dollars from Odebrecht, that supposedly were destined to the electoral campaign of the PRI in 2012 and to payments to opposition legislators to approve the energy reform. However, Lozoya denies having received bribes from Odebrecht.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx