To obtain resources for its social programs, the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador has resorted to auctions of assets protected by the Ministry of Finance, through the Institute to Give Back to the People the Stolen. And to help marginalized states and municipalities, with meager budgets, it has made important donations.
In special bank accounts there are also cash — cash, national and foreign national and legal currency bills and coins— resulting from seizures and confiscations. And now, the resources declared with extinction of domain by judicial decision. In these ways, however, little has been returned to the Mexican people.
After the respective notification, Indep prepares opinions that are not public, but the Superior Audit of the Federation had access to them, as part of the review of the Public Account 2020. Last year – it is now confirmed – eight assets were insured. sold and subsequently their domain forfeiture proceeded; 39 million pesos were obtained from that operation.
During the time that Indep managed them, they generated returns, but also administrative expenses. In the final balance, there was a loss of one million pesos. And in the end, 38.2 million were channeled for the termination of ownership, in favor of the social cabinet of the Presidency.
The Memoranda Accounts prepared by INDEP for 2020 contain more detailed information. In them, the ASF was able to identify that at the end of last year, that entity administered 2,113 million pesos of cash, which were pending destination by the judicial authorities. In US dollars, 81.3 million dollars remained in its funds.
Last year, 20.6 million pesos, 13 million dollars and 20 euros seized by judicial and administrative instances were dispersed by Indep, according to the destination instructed by the authorities. But also 16 million pesos and 1.8 million dollars insured had to be returned by Indep in 2020, plus the interest generated by those resources during their establishment in the concentrating accounts of that new entity, one of the most distinctive of the Fourth Transformation.
In 2020, while the first two waves of the Covid-19 pandemic were passing, the Federation protected 49.4 million pesos and 23.2 million dollars in cash, as a result of seizures and seizures carried out by the FGR and the Judiciary.
Those resources were protected by the Institute to Return the Stolen to the People in nine concentrating accounts, as stated in the report of the Public Account delivered by the Superior Audit of the Federation to the Chamber of Deputies.
Almost entirely, these funds were transferred to the Federation Treasury.
Between 2016 and 2020, Indep received 28.8 million pesos through 80 deposits to its bank accounts. Of the latter, three-quarters occurred in the last two years of the period —that is, in the first third of the Lopez Obrador administration— and amounted to 21.6 million pesos.
In that same five-year period, there is a record of 203 deposits for 44.8 million dollars. And unlike what happened with cash in national currency, most of these resources were delivered before 2015. Since the current administration began, there have only been 14 deposits, for 11.5 million dollars.
But what was detected by the ASF differs from Indep’s internal evaluations, which reported 123.6 million pesos and 6.019 million dollars more. A trifle? Not at all.
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