translated from Spanish: Authorities investigate house acquired by Lozoya in Las Lomas

A key to Odebrecht’s corruption plot in Mexico is in a house in the residential area of Las Lomas.
This House, of 1165 square meters, was acquired by Emilio Lozoya at the end of 2012 with money that the authorities investigate as part of the bribes paid by Odebrecht. And in that house, in addition, the conditions under which the contract was assigned to the Tula refinery were negotiated, according to the testimony of Luis Weyll, the director of the Brazilian construction company, who confessed that this work was obtained through bribes.
The House of the Lomas was owned by María del Carmen Ampudia Cárdenas, wife of Carlos Enrique Valenzuela Dosal, member of the board of Directors of the Financial Group Intercam.
The official investigations, to which it has had Mexican access against the corruption and the impunity (MCCI), followed the route of the money paid by Odebrecht and they met two transfers to Mexico on December 1, 2012, from a Swiss account of which Emilio Lozoya and his sister Gilda Susana were identified by the authorities as the beneficiaries.
The amount transferred that day was for 2,580,000 Swiss francs, at the exchange rate of then, equivalent to 38 million pesos, which is just the amount that Lozoya agreed with Mrs. Ampudia Cardenas to acquire their home.
The authorities identified that the largest of the transfers from Switzerland went to the account 00101419489 in Intercam House of Bolsa, which is attributed to Mrs. Ampudia.
One of the payments referenced as domicile of the beneficiary Calle Hillside Number 11, in the exclusive residential division Lomas de Bezares, which was the house occupied by the manager of Intercam and his wife, and which was sold to Lozoya.
Given the evidence that the house was acquired with money from Odebrecht bribes, the Financial intelligence unit ordered last Monday May 27 to freeze the bank accounts of Lozoya, his sister Gilda Susana and Mrs. Ampudia.
The property is located in a residential condominium called “Residencial La Retama”, which is part of Lomas de Bezares, between forests of Las Lomas and Santa Fe, in the mayor Miguel Hidalgo of Mexico City.
That is why when in December 2016 the Brazilian justice authorities asked the director of Odebrecht in Mexico, Luis Weyll, where he met with Lozoya to negotiate bribes in exchange for the contract of the Tula refinery, he responded that sometimes the meetings They were in the House of the director of Pemex in Santa Fe. But in reality the residence is in the area of Las Lomas, on extension Walk of the Reformation, near Santa Fe.
And the meetings that took place in that house – according to Weyll – had to do with the payment of another 6 million of dollars in bribes in exchange for contracts at the Tula refinery.
Altogether, the Odebrecht director has confessed that he paid 10 million dollars to Lozoya: 4 million in 2012 and 6 million more between 2013 and 2014. Lozoya has always denied those accusations.
Links in Virgin Islands with the competitor of Mossack Fonseca
These new investigations, carried out in the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, have already detected a link of Emilio Lozoya with a company based in the British Virgin Islands to which the Department of bribes of Odebrecht transferred 3,140,000 Dollars in the year 2012, equivalent to 40 million of pesos at the exchange rate of that year.
A sister of the exdirector of Pemex was the beneficiary, as the authorities have found, of that account, and therefore they also ordered to freeze their accounts.
In a testimony given on December 16, 2016 to the Brazilian justice authorities, the director of Odebrecht in Mexico, Luis Weyll, said that in March 2012 met with Emilio Lozoya, and that in that meeting agreed with the then member of the campaign pres Idencial de Peña Nieto the payment of $4 million in retribution for having helped him in the positioning of the company in Veracruz, where Odebrecht settled its base of operations and where it has its main business, the Ethylene XXI plant, of its Braskem subsidiary.
According to the informer, Lozoya requested that the deposits be made in an account at the Swiss bank Gonet & Cie on behalf of the company Latin America Asia Capital Holding.
MCCI corroborated that the aforementioned paper company or ‘ drawer ‘ was created on September 10, 2008 in the tiny town of Road Town, of the island of Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, one of the most opaque tax havens in the world.
MCCI has found new records that establish that the company was created in the office of TMF Services, belonging to TMF Group, a multinational firm of tax and legal services, specializing in creating offshore companies.
At the time, TMF Group had as one of its main competitors the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, who managed assets of politicians and personalities from around the world, and whose leaked files gave rise in 2016 to the scandal known as Panama papers.
Through requests for collaboration, Mexican authorities have now identified that TMF Group was the administrator of the company Latin America Asia Capital holding LTD, which the delators of Odebrecht attributed to Emilio Lozoya, but that the research points to That the beneficiary of the same is his sister Gilda Susana Lozoya.
The authorities also had access to the statements of the Meinl Bank of Antigua and confirmed the information disclosed by MCCI on August 14, 2017, about how the money flowed from Odebrecht’s bribe department in the midst of the presidential campaign of 2012 in favor Of the company linked to Lozoya, who in those days was the coordinator of International Liaison of the PRI candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto.
The money was sent to the Gonet & Cie Bank of Switzerland from account 244006 of the Meinl Bank of Antigua, which was in the name of the company ‘ facade ‘ Innovation Research Engineering and Development LTD. (IRED), which was used by Odebrecht to hide the payment of bribes Latin American politicians.
A first transfer to the account of Latin America Asia Capital, for 250,000 dollars, was made on April 20, 2012, three weeks after he had started the presidential campaign in Mexico, according to the statements obtained from 2017 by MCCI and now A have obtained copy the Mexican authorities.
On 25 and 27 April of the same year there were two other deposits for a million dollars; Then, on May 23, 500,000 dollars and 31 of that month were transferred other 490,000.
In June there were two more deposits: one on day 8 for 510,000 dollars and another on 18 for 400,000 dollars.
In short, the transfers to the company linked by the testimony of Luis Weyll to Emilio Lozoya, and where the Mexican authorities locate his sister, totaled 3,150,000 dollars, in 7 rounds.
Identify new Account
There were no more transfers in favor of Latin America Asia Capital Holding because the account was cancelled in November 2012.
The investigations of the Government of López Obrador have identified that the funds of the Swiss bank Gonet & Cie were transferred to a new account, on behalf of the company billets holding Limited, which was also created in the office TMF of the island of Tortola, according to a D Ocumento managed by MCCI.
The authorities have found in their financial tracing that the beneficiaries of this company were Emilio Lozoya and his sister Gilda Susana, and as administrator the firm TMF.
In the analysis of movements of the account 0240880974, two transfers from Switzerland to Mexico were identified on December 1, 2012, the same day that Enrique Peña Nieto took protest as president of Mexico.
A transfer was for 1.5 million Swiss francs to an account of Intercam Casa de Bourse; Another payment was for 1,080,000 francs.
At the exchange rate at the time, the amount of the two transfers for 2,580,000 francs coincides with the price agreed by the residence of Lomas de Bezarez (around 38 million pesos).
On the same day, a transfer for 39000 dollars from the billets holding account was identified to the legal services firm Plan B Consultancy and strategy, of which has been representative Andrés Constantin Antonius González, who in 2012 collaborated as strategy Coordinator In the transition team of Enrique Peña Nieto.
Consulted by MCCI this Tuesday by telephone, Antonius acknowledged that there is a Plan B dispatch, but he said he did not remember having made an operation on that date and said that he personally never provided any service to Emilio Lozoya. However, he asked for time to review the eventuality that, without his knowledge, someone from his office had done that operation.
In his first patrimonial declaration, at the beginning of the six-months of Peña Nieto, Lozoya reported that on November 14, 2012 had acquired in cash, at the price of 38,175,000 pesos, a house with an area of 1.165 square meters. However, in the report that made public, it did not reveal the location of the property nor the real folio with which it was registered in the public registry of the estate.
MCCI obtained a copy of the contract of sale, which was formalized before the notary Jorge Antonio Sánchez Cordero Dávila, brother of the current Secretary of the interior Olga Sánchez Cordero. The price coincides with that of the patrimonial declaration.
The house, located in the complex “Residencial La Retama”, had been sold two years and four months earlier, in July 2010, at 2,950,000 dollars.
The measures of freezing of assets to Lozoya, announced on Monday, joined the debarment for 10 years determined by the secretariat of the public service last Wednesday 22 May, for the concealment of accounts such as the authorities have discovered In Switzerland.
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Original source in Spanish