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November 29, 2019
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December 3, 2019From north to south
DOUBLE EDGE
Monuments to corruption
The construction of the Estela de Luz was criticized ten years ago for its high cost; But no one could avoid the whim of Felipe Calderón, who took as pretext the celebrations of the bicentennial of Independence and the centenary of the Mexican Revolution to build that monster without a joke on the Paseo de Reforma and divert public resources.
The initial amount was 398 million pesos, but it triplied and ended up costing 1,100 million pesos, because some studies were not considered. There are more irregulaties that come back today, after lawyers denounced Felipe Calderón in the Fiscalía General de la República (institution that investigates and prosecutes federal crimes) for his alleged responsability for crimes of abuse of authority, improper exercise of public service, ursurpation of functions and whatever results from the construction of the monument.
The Estela de Luz building were isn´t an insolated case, in the sexennium from 2006 to 2012, were used public organisms for triangulate resources, as Turissste (The Tourist Agency System of the Institute for Social Security and Services of State Workers) was responsible for organizing the oficial ceremonies of the president, as well as the events of the presidency, during the administration of Calderón Hinojosa, assgning contracts without a contest through.
The Brazilian Company Odebretch also was vinculated with the Calderón Government. During the last year of his government, the Brazilian Company won two contracts. For both contracts Pemex Refinación had to pay 634.9 million dollars, although according to the audit until 2012 the extra cost was already 136 million dollars, more than 20% of the initial cost. In the end, the work paid to Odebretch exceeded one billion dollars.
One of the contracts that stands out is equivalent to almost one billion pesos allocated to a ghost company of Nuevo León, Servicios de Alquiler en Hidrocarburos, S.A.de C.V. then the director of Pemex was Juan José Suárez Coppel. The aforementioned company had as partners the brothers Fernando and José Ángel Camarillo Cerda, and the latter´s wife, Rocio Guillén García, these three people resided in two humble homes in Privada de Independencia of the Moderna Colony of Monterrey.
The same three partners appear as owners of another company, Desarrolladora Especializada en Inmuebles, which was involved in the resale of a land, owned by municipality of San Nicolás. On that occasion, Mayor Carlos de la Fuente sold the land at 21.8 million pesos. A few days, this was resold at 70 millions. These cases are to mention the piglet that Felipe Calderón created, there is more embezzlement, as in the case of the transfer of 1,384 million to FIRA (Trusts Instituted in Relation to Agriculture) where the resources were used for increase the entity heritage and not for a escrow.
In the transfers to the Emisor Oriente Tunnel, the Audit detected that Semarnat used the resources to constitute a kind of patrimony to make, for the future and without subjecting to the principle of annuity, the payments of the work, which caused that the exercise of the resources of this work are no longer reflected in the investment projects of the Semarnat or accountable to them in the public account, because their expenditures were no considered as public expenditure and constituted a parallel expense.
In the same way of transfers to trust, 557 million pesos were contributed for the Parque Bicentenario, but it had already received 1,294 million between 2009 and 2010 and its cost was only 316 million pesos, therefore, in the trust used to fund the work, thousand 535 million remained available.
There are dozens of works, projects, tenders, etc. Carried out in the period 2006-2012 endowed of irregularities, a few investigated and in which there wereguilty parties without punishment, only a wake-up call and a period for not exercising, even if they go through the Arc de Triomphe, as did who now demands Felipe Calderón.
Staff
Translator: Victor Colin
The initial amount was 398 million pesos, but it triplied and ended up costing 1,100 million pesos, because some studies were not considered. There are more irregulaties that come back today, after lawyers denounced Felipe Calderón in the Fiscalía General de la República (institution that investigates and prosecutes federal crimes) for his alleged responsability for crimes of abuse of authority, improper exercise of public service, ursurpation of functions and whatever results from the construction of the monument.
The Estela de Luz building were isn´t an insolated case, in the sexennium from 2006 to 2012, were used public organisms for triangulate resources, as Turissste (The Tourist Agency System of the Institute for Social Security and Services of State Workers) was responsible for organizing the oficial ceremonies of the president, as well as the events of the presidency, during the administration of Calderón Hinojosa, assgning contracts without a contest through.
The Brazilian Company Odebretch also was vinculated with the Calderón Government. During the last year of his government, the Brazilian Company won two contracts. For both contracts Pemex Refinación had to pay 634.9 million dollars, although according to the audit until 2012 the extra cost was already 136 million dollars, more than 20% of the initial cost. In the end, the work paid to Odebretch exceeded one billion dollars.
One of the contracts that stands out is equivalent to almost one billion pesos allocated to a ghost company of Nuevo León, Servicios de Alquiler en Hidrocarburos, S.A.de C.V. then the director of Pemex was Juan José Suárez Coppel. The aforementioned company had as partners the brothers Fernando and José Ángel Camarillo Cerda, and the latter´s wife, Rocio Guillén García, these three people resided in two humble homes in Privada de Independencia of the Moderna Colony of Monterrey.
The same three partners appear as owners of another company, Desarrolladora Especializada en Inmuebles, which was involved in the resale of a land, owned by municipality of San Nicolás. On that occasion, Mayor Carlos de la Fuente sold the land at 21.8 million pesos. A few days, this was resold at 70 millions. These cases are to mention the piglet that Felipe Calderón created, there is more embezzlement, as in the case of the transfer of 1,384 million to FIRA (Trusts Instituted in Relation to Agriculture) where the resources were used for increase the entity heritage and not for a escrow.
In the transfers to the Emisor Oriente Tunnel, the Audit detected that Semarnat used the resources to constitute a kind of patrimony to make, for the future and without subjecting to the principle of annuity, the payments of the work, which caused that the exercise of the resources of this work are no longer reflected in the investment projects of the Semarnat or accountable to them in the public account, because their expenditures were no considered as public expenditure and constituted a parallel expense.
In the same way of transfers to trust, 557 million pesos were contributed for the Parque Bicentenario, but it had already received 1,294 million between 2009 and 2010 and its cost was only 316 million pesos, therefore, in the trust used to fund the work, thousand 535 million remained available.
There are dozens of works, projects, tenders, etc. Carried out in the period 2006-2012 endowed of irregularities, a few investigated and in which there wereguilty parties without punishment, only a wake-up call and a period for not exercising, even if they go through the Arc de Triomphe, as did who now demands Felipe Calderón.
Staff
Translator: Victor Colin
