translated from Spanish: Lozoya asks judge to subpoena EPN for purchase of Agro Nitrogenados

Emilio Lozoya Austin, former CEO of Pemex, requested in writing a federal judge to testify to former President Enrique Peña Nieto and Luis Videgaray, former Secretary of Finance, in connection with the case of The Agronitrogenados company.
Javier Coello Trejo, Lozoya’s lawyer, filed the letter Wednesday afternoon with the VIII Court of Amparo District in Criminal Matters in Mexico City.
Lozoya also asked to call for Peter Joaquin Coldwell, former Secretary of Energy; Miguel Messmacher, former undersecretary of the Treasury; José Manuel Carrera, former director of PMI Comercio Internacional, a subsidiary of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and Enrique Ochoa Reza, former director of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), according to the newspaper Reforma. 
Read: EPN and other senior officials must testify for the purchase of Agro Nitrogenados: Lozoya’s defense
The judge will determine in time whether or not to authorize the call to former officials.
The purpose of the former Pemex director’s defense is for these testimonies to be integrated into the amparo trial he prosecuted against the money laundering arrest warrant.
The admission of this evidence may lead to a lengthy litigation, since the witnesses referred to may challenge their possible citations and Lozoya the likely refusal to be called.
Just last week, Coello Trejo announced that he would request these interrogations to make clear the responsibility of each of the public servants who intervened in the acquisition of the Pajaritos complex, Veracruz, on December 17, 2013.
“If they really want to find and punish the culprits, it’s not the graduate Emilio Lozoya they have to look at,” the litigator said.
With information from Reforma 
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Original source in Spanish