translated from Spanish: Gertz Manero denies conflict of interest over having Coello Trejo as lawyer

The attorney general of the Republic, Alejandro Gertz Manero denied that there is a conflict of interest in having As a lawyer Javier Coello Trejo, the same one who defends the former director of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya.
“We are defending a federal matter that we have already won. There is only conflict of interest when a lawyer defends the two sides in a specific matter,” the attorney general said in an interview for Denise Maerker’s On-Point newscast.
Gertz noted that in Lozoya’s case “we already got what no one had been able to obtain, and that Mr. (Coello) does whatever defense he wants, I have no conflict of interest when I am winning the trials.”
The special prosecutor in charge of investigating Lozoya was an auxiliary… Lozoya’s lawyer
Animal Político and Quinto Elemento Lab revealed that lawyers have been in a personal relationship since 2015, when Gertz Manero granted power to lawyers Javier Coello Trejo and his son Javier Coello Zuarth to file a criminal complaint in his name and investigate the death of his brother Frederick.
These lawyers are the same ones representing Emilio Lozoya, whom the Attorney General’s Office investigates for alleged money laundering.
It’s not illegal, but it’s immoral, SAYS AMLO about the prosecutor’s relationship with Lozoya’s lawyer
Gertz said Coello will continue to represent him as he still has to heed the family affair he has already won.
Days earlier in an interview with Animal Político and Quinto Elemento Lab, Gertz had pointed out that he would revoke the power granted in 2015 to Coello Trejo.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on the subject that the fact that prosecutor Gertz Manero has the same lawyer as Emilio Lozoya is not an illegal act, but acknowledged that it can be something “immoral”.
However, he said he has confidence in the attorney general, as he called him a man who will not protect groups from “created interests.”
“He can decide whether or not to resign, but it is an autonomous institution – referring to the Attorney General’s Office – and it has to be respected, I have no need to make a recommendation in this regard,” AMLO added.
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Original source in Spanish