Around 10:12 am this Wednesday, the continuity hearing began, for the case Odebrecht, against the former director of Petróleos Mexicanos, Emilio Lozoya, who physically went to the federal courts of the North prison in Mexico City by order of the judge.
Based on the rights to defense and due process, the Judge authorized one month, ending on December 3, for Lozoya’s defense to collect evidence in his favor prior to the start of the trial against him. The judge urged the General Prosecutor of the Republic so that you exhaust the means to obtain that research data.
Initially, Lozoya and his defense had asked the judge for 60 days to extend the closure of the complementary investigation.
For their part, on behalf of the Prosecutor’s Office, agents of the Public ministry The federal government declared before the judge their opposition to the extension and requested that the complementary investigation stage be declared closed, since the documents that the defense alluded not to know, to request the additional period, are already in the investigation folder.
As third parties involved, representatives of Pemex and the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Ministry of Finance joined the prosecution’s claim.
At this time, the judge is analyzing whether the precautionary measures imposed on Lozoya prevail or whether it modifies them.
In a complaint he filed last year, Lozoya accuses former President Enrique Peña Nieto and former Secretary of the Treasury, Luis Videgaray, of knowing and allowing a bribery network for at least 10 million dollars from Odebrecht, which was supposedly destined for the PRI election campaign in 2012 and payments to opposition legislators to approve energy reform.
At his first court hearing in 2020, the exdirector of Petróleos Mexicanos He pleaded not guilty to having received bribes in millions of dollars from the Brazilian company Odebrecht, in exchange for delivering construction contracts to said Brazilian company.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx