translated from Spanish: León Trauwitz, general accused of huachicoleo rescued bank accounts

Mexico.-a federal court ordered to lift the blockade on the bank accounts de el General Brigadier Eduardo León Trauwitz, which had been frozen by the unit of Financial intelligence, investigating it for alleged links with the theft of fuel from Pemex.El twenty first Collegiate Court in administrative matters yesterday, reversed unanimously by its three judges, the refusal of provisional suspension which one District judge had issued on February 6. FIU Trauwitz included in his list of those blocked from January 8, and I notice by e-mail to the Banjercito to freeze the accounts, but the General, who was commissioned in Panama, presented their protection until January 31.

General Eduardo León Trauwitz was appointed head of the new branch of safeguarding strategic – Petroleos Mexicanos (@Pemex) on March 14, 2014, on January 8 was the day that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced research against Trauwitz in his morning press conference. The General was responsible for security of Pemex the greater part of the last six years. Alma Delia Chavez, judge tenth fifth administrative district, will solve this Wednesday if it grants or denies the definitive suspension León Trauwitz, which already you will have more detailed reports of the FIU on the reasons for freezing. If the judge denies the permanent suspension, accounts will be frozen and the appeal of the General in a collegiate court will take several weeks to resolve. The Collegiate Court recalled that the Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional, several precedents, the article 115 of the credit institutions Act (LIC), which empowers UIF to designate blocked people and ordered banks to cease all operation with them.

Eduardo Leon Trauwitz. Photo: Special/the above reform, because in the opinion of the Court this faculty should be reserved for the judges, upon request of the public prosecutor’s Office in a criminal investigation, and not be exercised unilaterally by an administrative authority as the FIU, unless There is request from another country for international collaboration.” Taking into account the pronouncements of the Court regarding the unconstitutionality of article 115 of the LIC, and that at this stage of the proceedings the origin of the immobilization to the bank accounts of the complaining party is unknown, estimated that it is not valid stating categorically that the granting of the measure precautionary measures will result in allowing that operations related to unlawful acts, as there is with the necessary records demonstrating that end carried out”, said the Court. León Trauwitz, former Deputy Director of safeguarding strategic of Pemex, is under investigation for: the huachicoleo possible links with the theft of fuel soared during his assignment in the next six years passed until last July, when he left office, were reported 38 clandestine shots a day.

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