US EditionMembers of Mexico's Navy Among 14 Arrested in Major Fuel Smuggling Crackdown
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Good for the coordinated operation between several departments of the federal government to combat the fiscal huachicoleo, which not only exposed the enormous gap in public finances (200 billion pesos and counting), but also the participation of senior Navy leaders who have stained that institution.Although a swallow not last summer, this has affected the confidence and credibility of the institution, especially because in the machinery of organ…
Mexico City.- The leader of the Citizens' Movement (MC) bench in the Senate of the Republic, Clemente Castañeda, demanded punishment, whoever falls, for those responsible for the huachicol scandal in the Navy. For Castañeda, a real parteaguas will appear at the moment when the investigations go deep. "The fiscal huachicol discovered in Tamaulipas is only the tip of the iceberg of a corruption problem that grew under the eyes of the federal gover…
Members of Mexico's Navy among 14 arrested in major fuel smuggling crackdown
A major crackdown on the illegal fuel trade has resulted in the arrest of 14 people in Mexico, with more actions expected to follow as the investigation continues. Among those detained were customs employees, businessmen and six members of the military, including a vice admiral. Attorney General Alejandro Gertz and Security Minister Omar García Harfuch announced the apprehensions on Sunday, with Gertz adding that additional arrests were forthcom…
“There had already been complaints by the Secretary of the Navy himself [but] these arrests come from a vessel that was investigated,” Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum, on Monday, defended Admiral Rafael Ojeda Durán, in relation to the fuel smuggling network whose dismantling was made public last weekend. This criminal group, involving sailors, officials and businessmen, was led by Vice Admiral Manuel Roberto Farías Laguna, political nephew …
The Mexican government arrested senior Navy officials on the weekend for alleged collusion with the theft of hydrocarbons for later sale on the black market, a criminal modality also known as «huachicoleo». It is a coup with political effect because it directly touches the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador : among those arrested is the nephew of Admiral Rafael Ojeda, secretary of the Navy during the six-year term of López Obrador, betwee…
Mexican authorities gave details of the fiscal huachicol network discovered last March after the confiscation of 10 million liters of diesel in Tamaulipas
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