Mexico presidential runner-up alleges money laundering in election
Mexico presidential runner-up alleges money laundering in election
López Obrador accuses president-elect Peña Nieto of using illicit funds and money laundering to finance his campaign
Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 July 2012 21.18 EDT
The runner-up in Mexico's recent presidential election has added the charge of money laundering to his efforts to get the country's electoral tribunal to invalidate the victory of Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the left wing Party of Democratic Revolution, or PRD, presented his challenge to the the electoral authorities last week. It contained 58 boxes of documents initially focused on allegations of extensive vote buying, systematic bias in the media, manipulated opinion polls and massive overspending.
The additional charges centre on a bank called Monex and electronic cards it issues in bulk to clients for them to distribute.
A small amount of these cards were directly linked to PRI activists in the central state of Guanajuato before the election in a complaint filed by the governing National Action Party, or PAN, whose candidate came in a poor third in the election on 1 July.
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