Ghosts that refuse to disappear: the businesses of false companies in the six-year period of AMLO

The great promise of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was to fight corruption. Combating it was not only a moral duty, but a way to save resources and stretch the budget. AMLO’s crusade against government corruption soon laid eyes on companies that bill Simulated Operations (EFOS), as defined by the Tax Administration Service (SAT) to companies without the material or personal capacity to carry out activities. Factorists, fron…

78.2 percent of the contracts to phantom companies in the past six years were delivered through exception procedures, a proportion almost the same as with Peña Nieto and greater than with Calderón. The figure of phantom companies is not only used by taxpayers to pay less taxes, but also government dependencies, but for [...]

Although the former president promised to fight the bills, in his six-year term the ghost companies obtained contracts for 182 million pesos, according to the report of journalists Violeta Santiago and René Valencia, of Elemento Lab.