They capture a collaborator of Taboada accused of real estate corruption

Laura Gómez Flores, Sandra Hernández García and Elba Mónica Bravo

Newspaper La Jornada
Friday February 17, 2023, p. 27

Investigative agents detained Adelaida N, director of Services, Works and Urban Development in Benito Juárez during the administration of mayor Santiago Taboada in 2019-2022, allegedly related to the real estate corruption network in the demarcation and with possible irregular authorizations regarding the property of City Towers located in the Santa Cruz Atoyac neighborhood.

The spokesperson for the Attorney General’s Office (FGJ) reported that other arrest warrants are regarding to be executed once morest Emilio N, former Director General of Urban Development, and Víctor N, current Director General of Planning, Development and Citizen Participation.

Subpoenas are also being sent to public notaries and construction businessmen directly related to the construction of the complex, in order to “deepen on the mode of operation of this network of corruption in the demarcation”, he indicated.

The former public servant was arrested for her probable participation in the crime of illegal use of powers and powers in a gang and admitted to the Women’s Center for Social Reintegration of Santa Martha Acatitla.

The woman is possibly related to million-dollar contracts for road maintenance and possible irregular authorizations for said complex located on Eje 8 Sur Popocatépetl, he said.

The FGJ investigation established that the project does not comply with the registered free area, as it has a notable surplus to what was originally contemplated, which allowed the building of more apartments and other types of construction not provided for in the initial authorization, he specified.

▲ The housing complex at Avenida Popocatépetl 415, in the Benito Juárez mayor’s office, is part of the more than 40 irregular buildings being investigated by the capital’s prosecutor’s office.Photo Maria Luisa Severiano

The head of the agency, Ernestina Godoy, maintained that the investigations being carried out are serious, solid and have a scientific basis. Our actions are reviewed by the courts, we put them and the courts decide whether or not there is a possibility that someone will be linked to the processhe said, when leaving the facilities of the capital’s Congress.

Separately, the mayor Santiago Taboada accused that since he announced the decision to seek the candidacy for the head of government, the actions of political persecution once morest him have intensified, for which he assured that that is the only and true reason why they want to imprison us.

In a video that he shared on his social networks, where he anticipated that one of his collaborators and two former officials had arrest warrants, he assured that the head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, is building a state electionfollowing expressing that with the intention of intimidating him they have manufactured investigation folders without, according to him, being allowed to know what they are accusing him of.

So far there are six detainees and five arrest warrants to be executed.