MEXICO CITY.- Fernando Hiram Zurita Jimenezidentified as the operator of the “front” company that allegedly simulated the sale of sugar to Segalmex for 142 million pesos, informed the General Prosecutor of the Republic (FGR) that values plead guilty.
Zurita Jiménez served as director of the Auxiliary Police Pension Fund capital city during the six-year terms of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador y Marcelo Ebrardin the government of Mexico City (2000-2012).
According to the newspaper Remodeling On February 27, the former official asked the Prosecutor’s Office an abbreviated procedurea negotiation that consists of admitting guilt without going to trial, in exchange for a minimal sentence.
However, authorities of the Judicial Branch of the Federation reported that, shortly following he requested to negotiate the deal, Zurita changed lawyers and his new defense has not yet commented on whether or not it will formalize this early form of concluding the process.
The defendant is 73 years old, so an eventual agreement with federal prosecutors would facilitate his release from the Altiplano Prison.
If you confirm your interest and start the formal negotiation of the Zurita abbreviated procedure would avoid a sentence of up to 35 years in prisonsince the crimes of organized crime and money laundering for which he is prosecuted, in his particular case, are punishable by a maximum of 20 and 15 years in prison, respectively.
On March 27, 2023 the General Prosecutor of the Republic (FGR) arrested Fernando Hiram Zurita in Colonia Roma in Mexico City and he has been in prison since then.
What is Fernando Hiram Zurita accused of?
He is in jail because It is linked to Carregín Comprehensive Servicesa company that allegedly defrauded Segalmex with the diversion of more than 142 million pesosthrough a contract that simulated the sale of 7,840 tons of sugar.
Last year Hugo Gerardo Rosales Badillowho in 2022 was an alternate candidate for the Mayor of Durango for the coalition of Morena, PT and RSP, revealed in a statement that Zurita controlled Carregín.
Rosales Badillo claims to have lent Zurita 10 million pesos and, when he paid the debt, he did so through a transfer from a bank account in the name of The false sugar supplier.
Rosales Badillo was also arrested for the crimes of organized crime and money laundering for the deposit. The man from Durango remains a fugitive from justice.
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2024-07-15 07:08:48
