translated from Spanish: FGR and Treasury investigate Collado-related companies

The Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) of the Ministry of Finance conducts the investigation of 34 people related to Libertad Servicios Financieros, a company linked to the case of lawyer Juan Collado.
During his visit to Querétaro, the head of the UIF, Santiago Nieto Castillo, said that the next step will be the analysis of moral persons in order to determine what is appropriate in law.
He noted that some of these people are in the state of Queretaro, whose accounts have already been frozen.
He asked to wait for further investigations carried out by the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic and the FIU regarding the Collado case, accused of money laundering through the aforipo Financial Society (Sofipo).
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Meanwhile, the Attorney General’s Office asked a federal judge to call an order to the National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) to deliver financial information from 11 companies and individuals related to the Caja Libertad case
These are all statements, names of authorized persons, contracts and proof of transfers of all types of banking instrument, registered between January 1, 2014 and June 30, 2019, as reported by the newspaper Reforma.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office requested the bank reports of José Antonio Rico Rico, former chairman of the Board of Directors of Caja Libertad; as well as José Antonio Vargas Hernández, Roberto Isaac Rodríguez Gálvez and Tania DeMi García Ortega, as well as Collado, arrested last week for money laundering and organized crime.
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The companies for which information is requested are: Administrator Ario, Administrator Cimantorio, Integral Office of Real Estate, Freedom of Financial Services, Maintenance and Remodeling Real Estate, and Property Operator of the Center.
The last company would have sold to Caja Libertad, in simulated form, the building where it is now headquartered in the city of Querétaro, for a sum of 156 million pesos, plus taxes.
According to the FGR, when the popular financial company paid for the acquisition of this property, the seller used the money to transfer 24 million pesos to Juan Collado.
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The request for information corresponds to the research folder FED/SEIDF/UNAI-CDMX/0000949/2019 and is processed to prevent reports from being invalidated, as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation has established that such evidence is unlawful if they are not authorized by a judge.
Collado claims this aspect in the appeal that he promoted against the linkage to the process of organized crime and money laundering, that is, that he was already subject to proceedings based on banking information that was obtained illegally.
The FGR’s request would be subsequent to the judicialization of the research folder containing the banking information that was taken into account by a supervisory judge to prosecute the litigant.
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Original source in Spanish