translated from Spanish: Robles only owns one property, but he did have two alternate addresses: lawyer

Julio Hernández Barros, lawyer of Rosario Robles, confirmed that the former owner of the Sedesol y Sedatu had two alternate homes, one located in Reforma 222 and the other in Polanco, whose property is owned by the former secretary of Communications and Transport, Gerardo Ruiz Esparza.
The lawyer argued that at different times Robles rented two departments, one in Reforma and one in Polanco to be near the office, without leaving at any time the domicile of Coyoacán.
“And yes, in fact, Cyrus, she had some addresses that were used by the working days that were very long and that in both secretaries (Sedatu and Sedesol) were prolonged.
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Julio Hernández López said he was unaware of who rented the Reforma 222 department and confirmed that Polanco’s was rented by Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, but not directly to find out about him.
In an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva, she said that the former secretary of Sedesol rented the property in Reforma 222 first, but left it after the earthquake of September 19, 2017, and then moved to the department of Polanco, owned by Ruiz Esparza.
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He said Robles only owns one property in the Los Reyes colony, in the town of Coyoacán.
“Something that is clouding, is given to the unfounded public opinion again of some reporters, especially those of Political Animal, where they manifest that Rosario has several properties, things that is totally false. Those of us who know her know that she has lived for at least 24 years in her house in Coyoacán.”
On Wednesday, Animal Político published that Rosario Robles rented an apartment of 221.54 square meters, located in Polanco, which is by Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, it is never mentioned that it was owned by the former owner of Sedatu.
Ruiz Esparza said that the monthly rent paid by Robles amounted to 35 thousand pesos, but “for care of the legal process” of the former secretary, he preferred not to show the contract. She arrived at the property since 2017 and left him only in February of this year when the contract expired, she explained.
Rosario Robles is in prison as a precautionary measure against “risk of escape” because Judge Felipe de Jesús Delgadillo considered that there was no certainty about his residence. Although she argued that she had lived in the same house in Coyoacán for 24 years, the truth is that she had not lived there for at least three years, and even processed a driver’s license and registered an apartment in the Polanco colony as a domicile. That contradiction meant a “falsehood,” the judge said at the hearing on August 13, and was decisive in sending her to the Santa Martha prison.
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Dig into Sedatu land sale
The Financial Intelligence Unit of the Ministry of Finance investigates the sale of federal land made by Sedatu during rosario Robles’ tenure, its owner Santiago Nieto reported.
In the transactions of the purchase and sale of the land allegedly are involved ghost companies, as happened in the diversion of resources of the Master Scam.
“We are also working on the Sedatu-linked case of the federal lands that were also sold to front companies, it seems to us that this may come to other kinds of responsibilities, in the moment we will do so from the knowledge of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic,” Nieto declared.
In the case of embezzlement to Sedesol and Sedatu, for which Robles is currently in pre-trial detention, he maintained, information is still being analyzed.
“We are currently analyzing 105 collaboration agreements that were submitted by the Ministry of Welfare (formerly Sedesol) to the Financial Intelligence Unit to determine how many front companies were used in the same methodology,” he said.
Rosario Robles’ lawyer said he hasn’t found any anomalies.
“I have reviewed the performance, the contracts that have been concluded and frankly I have not found any anomaly, so Rosario Robles is not followed right now because he would have taken money, or because he would have embezzled the public treasury or because it would have been benefited from it.”
Hernandez Lopez reported that he will go to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights because a pre-trial detention is not justified, thus becoming “arbitrary detention,” he said.
 
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Original source in Spanish