Calderón: For friends ... impunity
Raúl Monge
As President [SIC] Felipe Calderón announced that promote measures to combat money laundering, documents that process has shown that some investigations have been initiated to combat this offense were in the file. So it was with a complaint to the Ministry of Finance filed against Ricardo José Patrón Laviada resource management for allegedly illegally obtained and organized crime. The investigation reached even his brother, the former governor of Yucatan, Patricio Jose, current holder of the Profepa.
MEXICO, DF., August 28 (Process) - On October 25, 2006, in the final stretch of the presidential term of Vicente Fox, the owner of the Attorney General's Office (PGR), Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, was a trade "private and confidential" from the Financial Intelligence Unit of Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP)-folio 110/H/245/2006- with a timely request, to investigate possible crimes committed by Ricardo José Patrón Laviada, Patrick's brother Joseph, then governor of Yucatán and current holder Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa).
Despite the silence of the attorney, who is now director of the Federal Judiciary, the body responsible for detecting possible financial crimes and moral individuals discharged in the Federal Register of Taxpayers not only maintained active investigation, but that spread to other family members Pattern Laviada, including none other than José Patricio own, according to the trade 110/F/332/2008 dated November 7, 2008.
However, the PGR did not act in either case.
When Treasury first referred the case to the prosecutor, Ricardo Joseph was one of the few members of the clan Pattern Laviada had managed to stay away from public scandals for nearly a decade chasing his family inside and outside Mexico . His brothers Joseph and Antonio José Alejandro have been linked more than once to organized crime.
Signed by the then director of the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Ministry of Finance, José Luis Martínez Colina, the document, which process has a copy, says:
"Based on Articles 400-bis, paragraph IV Federal Criminal Code, 113, 117 and 118 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and 15-H fraction II of the Internal Regulation of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, I am likely to report acts constituting the crime of operations with illegal proceeds (washing money) allegedly committed by Ricardo José Patrón Laviada and its partners Johnny Alberto Benítez Cetina, Cecilia Margarita Laviada and Cecilia Margarita Laviada Arrigunaga or Arrigunaga, José Baltasar Cetina Pech and person or persons responsible. "
In fact Rapporteur noted that Richard Joseph is José Patricio Patrón brother Laviada, the then governor of Yucatan, and from 1998 to 2005 conducted financial transactions "that are not related to economic activities reported, and much less with their tax payment forms."
Extract report published in the 1765 edition of Proceso magazine, already in circulation.
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