An exhaustive investigation by Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) reveals that Million-dollar misappropriations of public resources of the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE), were diverted to the same invoicer involved in the Mexican Food Security Fraud (Segalmex), and reveal who is that person.
And to promote its educational reform, the government of Enrique Pena Nieto gave hundreds of millions of pesos to SNTE and a portion of that money was diverted to “ghost” companies what he SAT identified them as such; one of them had as operator a Billing agent who participated in the multimillion-dollar Segalmex fraud during the government he heads Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
The documents exhibited by MCCI show that between 2014 and 2016he SNTE paid more than 34.5 million pesos to five companies that the SAT listed as “invoicing companies,” including Kwon Mexico City SA de CV, which has had as its representative Florencio Resendiz Hernandez, who during López Obrador’s six-year term was involved in the Segalmex fraud.
The journalists Vanessa Cisneros and Eduardo Buendia They point out in their investigation that in 2016, the SNTE received public resources from the government of Enrique Peña Nieto as part of a program “to support educational reform.”
Kwon México and its links to a multi-million dollar fraud in Mexico
And at least 6 million pesos were transferred by the teachers’ union to Kwon Mexicoin two payments made in August and November of that year, as stated in documents officers of the SAT.
Kwon México It was established in November 2010 by two people of German origin, who declared that their tax domicile was in the Hidalgo neighborhood, in the Nicolás Romero municipality, in the State of Mexico.
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According to public records reviewed by MCCI, on July 22, 2013, he was appointed as Kwon’s agent to Florencio Reséndiz Hernández, an alleged “billing agent” involved in a network of six “ghost” companies that received 800 million pesos in the fraud committed at Segalmex, which AMLO himself has described as “the stain” on his government.
MCCI’s work indicates that of that amount, 325.7 million pesos were allocated to two companies in which Florencio Reséndiz is a shareholder or owner.
Y 342.3 million more to a third in which he is a representative of the shareholders’ meeting.
Three other related companies that share emails, telephones and addresses received around 130 million pesos from Segalmex.
Kwon Méxicoa “ghost” company
MCCI visited the address declared by the founders of Kwon and There is a grocery store on site where a person answered who said he did not know any of the founders and assured that their establishment has been at that address for more than 20 years, so it is not possible that the aforementioned company was established there.
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“Here are only Mexicans. We have never had contact with Germans,” said the store manager on the names of the founders of Kwon, according to reporters.
Kwon’s main turnaround, MCCI notes, is notarized as marketing of sports accessoriesa activity very different from educational management for which public resources from the SNTE.
On November 21, 2017, almost a year after having had commercial exchange with the SNTE, the Tax Administration Service (SAT) included Kwon in the list of Companies that Invoice Simulated Operations (EFOS), colloquially called ghost companies.
After a legal battle, Kwon Mexico City obtained a favorable ruling and the SAT removed her from its blacklist March 5, 2020.
Diversions to “ghost” companies of the teachers’ union
During the Enrique Peña Nieto’s six-year term he SNTE received more than 3 billion pesos for various reasons, of which 500 million were allocated to the National Program to Support Educational Reform, according to journalists from MCCI Vanessa Cisneros and Eduardo Buendia.
Public reports on the program indicate that the money was to be used to promote the reform through public events, seminars, workshops, training, the purchase of computer equipment for teachers and students, and the operation of applications.
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But a review of documents by MCCI reveals that the SNTE diverted part of that money to companies officially declared as “ghost“.
- Leiin Comprehensive Consulting, which the SAT included in its final list of billing companies, received 17.8 million from the SNTE pesos in 2016 from the educational reform support fund.
- This company is linked to Leger Marketing and Marketinganother company that received the same year from the teachers’ union 3.8 million pesos.
Leger shares several links with Leiin Integral Consulting: Both were established on October 23, 2014with notary public Roberto Garzón Jiménez, in Mexico City.
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In addition to the fact that in the minutes of the two it appears Daniel Eduardo Luna Lopez and Said Roberto Martinez de la Vega Martinez as its shareholder and Luis Antonio Garcia Solchaga as commissioner.
Their corporate purposes indicate that they were established to carry out activities ranging from consultanciesservices touristexecution of contracts, production of products and even construction activities.
Companies that do not exist, used to divert public resources
MCCI He went to the addresses registered by the members of the companies in the minutes and found that Nobody knows who recorded the data on paper.
In the minutes of Consultoría Integral Leiin it appears that Fernando Hermilo Caballero Jiménez made appointments in October 2017 for the company. In these papers it is stated that he gave as his address a department Located on Doctor José María Vertiz Avenue, in the Letrán del Valle neighborhood, in Mexico City.
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It is a four-story building with apartments, where no one knows him or has heard of the companies where he is listed.
“The thing is There is no one with that name or anything like that. (…) Impossible. I have lived here for many years and there is no one called that,” said the resident of the three-bedroom apartment, which Caballero Jiménez listed as his address, to MCCI.
“Front” companies
Leger and Leiin also have ties to a “front” company who received money from the government of Coahuila, when Rubén Moreira was governor.
According to a report from the Congress of Coahuila, from December 2017, the Finance Secretariat of the government of that entity made unjustified payments to 13 companies for more than 410 million pesos, among which was Vilzel Comprehensive Consulting, one of whose partners is also a shareholder in Leger and Lein.
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The authority noted that Vilzel did not have financial solvency, financial liquidity or the capacity to provide legal advisory and consulting services in tax matters.
Untraceable people versus companies that do not exist: “ghost”
The SNTE also dispersed another 3.4 million pesos between 2015 and 2016 to Negocios Corporativos Stalin SA de CV, which the SAT has on its definitive list of shell companies.
The purpose of these payments was also to support the educational reform promoted by the Peña Nieto government.
- Stalin Corporate Business It was created in December 2013 by Juan Carlos Mercado Sánchez and Fernando Fernández Medrano, and was dissolved in December 2017, although that did not prevent the authorities from classifying it as a simulation of operations.
Both shareholders stated that they lived in the Iztapalapa municipality of Mexico City. However, during visits to these addresses, the company’s participants could not be located.
Juan Carlos Mercado Sanchez He declared his address in the Granjas San Antonio neighborhood, on a property where there are at least four houses.
Almost at the end of the propertythe journalists found Mr. César Mercado Sánchezwho identified himself as brother of one of the company’s shareholders.
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He explained that It’s been a long time since he saw his family member. and? He does not live at that address for more than eight years.
“We haven’t seen him for many months.. We haven’t seen him for a year. I have no idea what has become of him or what he does. He lived here many years ago, before the pandemic, since about 2015.
“We have never commented on their activitiesI knew he worked in a meat packing plant, as a driver. and that I had been working for several years, but I don’t know if I’m still working,” he said.
False addresses to divert millions of public resources
For his part, Fernández Medrano declared that he lives in a condominium on Tláhuac Avenue in the Iztapalapa municipality.
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When they went to the house, a person said that Fernando was his neighbor, but that he had not lived there for more than 10 years.
- Altus Image and Events Consulting, another company classified by the SAT as an invoice-maker, rreceived 3.3 million pesos from the SNTE during 2015 for benefits, cultural promotion, savings, training and updating of the teaching profession, according to the expense reports reviewed by MCCI.
The company was founded on May 14, 2012 in the municipality of Penjamillo, Michoacán, according to data consulted in the Public Registry of Commerce. Its main activity is consulting in advertising and the development of advertising campaigns.
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2024-08-17 11:35:11
