translated from Spanish: Santiago Nieto will be responsible for investigations of laundering of money

Monday, Carlos Urzúa, proposed as the next Secretary of the Treasury, presented Santiago Nieto Castle as the next head of the financial intelligence unit of the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP).
In press conference, he said that it is a very important dependency, because it is the instance that tracks money and washing for the frontal combat against corruption.
Read: There are no conditions to return: Santiago Nieto accepted his departure from the Fepade until last October, Santiago Nieto served as head of the Special Prosecutor for the attention of electoral crimes (FEPADE) of which was removed by the Attorney Alberto Elías Beltrán acting under the pretense that grandson Castle “violated the code of ethics” of the Fepade to disclose data to a media related to research on Emilio Lozoya, extitular of Pemex, who was designated welcome assumptions the Brazilian company Odebrecht bribes.
At this, October 23 Nieto reported alleged irregularities in his removal as electoral Prosecutor and requested the intervention of the Senate to object to its removal.
Days after the extitular of the Fepade accepted although his complaint of irregularities came, there was no conditions to resume his post at the head of the Fepade.
On 22 may, Santiago Nieto, has joined the campaign team of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador elected as moderator on prevention and identification of poor electoral practices such as purchase and coercion of the vote, the electoral process.
At that time, Nieto said that during his period in the Fepade and before his dismissal, is already investigating the case Odebrecht in coordination with various international legal bodies.
The financial intelligence unit of SHCP that grandson Castle will be headed in the coming months, is in charge of “assist in the prevention and fight against crimes of operations with resources of illicit origin – commonly known as money laundering – and” Terrorism and its financing.”
Santiago Nieto holds a doctorate in law at UNAM. Since 2007 he joined the Court Electoral of the power of the Federal judiciary (TEPJF) as head of unit for research and in 2008, became electoral magistrate in the same institution.
In the period from 2014 to 2015, he served as researcher of graduate of the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM. In the past two years was the headline of the Fepade until his dismissal of October 20, 2017.

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