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  • Corruption: Emilio Lozoya, the 'collaborating witness' who puts the Mexican PRI in check

The former director of the Mexican state oil company Pemex, Emilio Lozoya, currently under judicial process, accused former presidents and politicians, mainly of the opposition PAN , of participating in different acts of corruption, in a statement before the prosecution that was leaked to the press.

In his written statement, leaked to the media Wednesday night, Lozoya said that on instructions from former President Enrique Peña Nieto and former Secretary of the Treasury and former Chancellor Luis Videgaray , he gave bribes to legislators to pass reforms structural, including energy, which opened the sector to private initiative after 71 years of state monopoly.

"Enrique Peña Nieto and Luis Videgaray indicated to me in February 2013 that it was necessary to deliver significant amounts of money to the opposition so that it could vote in favor of certain structural reforms," ​​Lozoya says in the document.

The former official also said that the then senators of the National Action Party (PAN right) Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca and Francisco Domínguez , today governors of the states of Tamaulipas (northeast) and Querétaro (center), received bribes, although both have denied the accusations.

Domínguez, who was present Wednesday during President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's regular press conference , denied the corruption allegations.

"Mr. Lozoya has tried to involve me with an unprecedented baseness in acts of corruption (...). There was no need to give me money to obtain a vote that was already held by personal conviction," Domínguez said in a surprising statement during the conference, in which López Obrador preferred to avoid making more statements on the subject due to "political civility . "

Lozoya said in his statement that he also gave just over six million pesos (about $ 300,000) to former PAN presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya , who also denied the accusation.

"Do not dream that I am going to leave. With me they are going to run into a wall. I don't care how long it takes," Anaya said in a video uploaded to social networks. The PAN politician competed with López Obrador during the 2018 election and was previously a federal deputy.

Lozoya said that during the government of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) advantageous conditions were given to the Braskem company, a subsidiary of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, for the construction of a petrochemical plant.

In response, Calderón said on Twitter that Lozoya is used by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador "as an instrument of revenge and political persecution."

Lozoya also said that former President Carlos Salinas (1988-1994) lobbied for one of his sons to receive projects from Pemex.

"Let everything be known"

The attorney general's office denied having leaked the document and announced that it has launched an investigation into it, although it did not deny its authenticity.

However, President López Obrador said that the complaint is authentic because of the reaction that those involved had.

"I already have knowledge of the complaint that Mr. Lozoya allegedly presented, everything indicates that it is true, effective, that it is not apocryphal, which is the complaint that he actually presented to the attorney general's office," said the president in his usual morning press conference .

"Why do I think it is not apocryphal? Because many of those involved have already reacted, based on what is said there," he added.

The president summoned the people to know Lozoya's complaint and assured that the indicated politicians "present complaints for moral damage" if they are being defamed.

"We must all be informed on this issue, that there is no concealment of information, that it is not manipulated, that there is no silence, that everything is known, that the truth be known," he said.

López Obrador had already asked before that all the details of Lozoya's accusation be known. Just last Tuesday, at his usual morning press conference, he released a video in which two former Senate officials received money from alleged bribes amid the Lozoya corruption scandal.

Emilio Lozoya, 45, who led Pemex from 2012 to 2016, was extradited from Spain on July 17 to be prosecuted for the use of resources of illicit origin , criminal association and bribery.

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