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Mexico: Pena-Nieto Ally Arrested for Graft Scheme
Print article Published: Wednesday, 03 January 2018 16:06
A veteran figure of Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was arrested in December for diverting public funds to his party’s gubernatorial election campaigns in a failed effort to boost the PRI’s faltering popularity.
Alejandro Gutierrez, who helped direct the financial activities of the PRI, and formerly served as a party deputy, is charged with playing a key role in the nation-wide corruption scheme involving tens of millions of dollars.
The federal government sent money earmarked for education to states run by PRI governors who then would grant government contracts to fake companies which, in reality, financed the party’s 2016 campaigns.
According to documents reviewed by The New York Times and corroborated by interviews with witnesses, Gutierrez also received a $230,000 deposit of public funds into his personal bank account.
More:
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/7443-mexico-pena-nieto-ally-arrested-for-graft-scheme
Alejandro Gutierrez
