Dismantling the corrupt State is the central objective that the Financial Intelligence Unit will have with Pablo Gómez at the helm.
The new anti-money laundering and terrorism czar in Mexico considers that the corrupt state has begun to disarticulate in the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
However, he is also aware that the task of ending the corrupt State has not been completed, which not only damaged the country, but is, from his point of view, one of the most important factors in the distribution of income and Of wealth.
After the resignation of Santiago Nieto, the new head of the powerful FIU arrives with all the confidence and credibility of the President of Mexico, who publicly described him as an honest and incorruptible man.
Gómez defines the corrupt state as a way of governing that prevailed in Mexico since the 1950s.
The new head of the FIU warns that “a government that is not corrupt has arrived in Mexico; but that – he clarifies – does not mean that the corrupt state has disappeared ”.
Why? Because “the plots are still present to a large extent.”
He refers that the first thing that was done was to end the “moches” in the Chamber of Deputies. The new majority eliminated them. It is a great step in the goal of dismantling the corrupt state.
It has been in this six-year term -he emphasizes-, in which for the first time the government did not buy votes.
No votes were bought with money from the federal government, he says.
And that practically nobody registered it, when it is – he points out – a great act against the corrupt State.
But that – the former legislator acknowledges – does not mean that everything has disappeared, because there are remnants of the corrupt State that did buy votes with the money with which they bought the votes.
Mexico – for Gómez – is not Chicago, where votes were bought with money from businessmen. Here everything was public money, that is the Mexican story, it is not about a remnant of corruption, he clarifies, but about a way of governing and that still persists.
The corrupt state, he insists, has begun to disarticulate but the task of ending this phenomenon has not been completed.
The central thesis of Pablo Gómez is based on the research he carried out to write his book The Secret Expenses of the President, in which he argues that corruption becomes an instrument of government function.
The book is – says its author – not just a historical analysis of the concentration of economic power in the hands of the President.
It is a technical study of how resources are concentrated through the budgeting mechanism for the arbitrary and irregular decision of public resources in the hands of the President.
There it is detailed how corruption is used, as a central element of governance, and corruption is spreading in territories, new organizations and it is adding and incorporating more people into the corruption schemes.
For this reason, says the head of the FIU, it is important to advance in the dismantling of that corrupting State.
Gómez assures that he does not arrive with a vengeance, because he has no one to take revenge on.
And he announces that he will make changes to strengthen the FIU and achieve greater coordination with the Attorney General of the Republic, headed by Alejandro Gertz, the Tax Administration Service (SAT), Raquel Buenrostro, the Tax Attorney of the Carlos Romero Federation and financial supervision bodies such as the National Banking and Securities Commission.
We will see how the performance of Pablo Gómez at the head of the FIU is shaping up.
Its predecessor left an impressive record. It achieved the blockade of more than 6.5 billion pesos to people who were detected indications of money laundering or terrorist financing.
The FIU in that period filed 378 complaints against more than 1,150 individuals, 1,100 legal entities and 220 public servants.
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He has worked continuously in newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the Internet, in the last 31 years he has specialized in business, finance and economics. He is one of the three hosts of the Alebrijes, Águila o Sol program, a program specializing in economic issues that is broadcast on Foro TV.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx