translated from Spanish: Intelligence Unit investigates former SCT owner Ruiz Esparza

The head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Santiago Nieto Castillo reported that several cases of alleged corruption are being investigated in the past administration in various units, such as the secretariats of Communications and Transport (SCT) and Tourism.
According to the federal official, the investigation he conducts in the case of the SCT involves his former owner, Gerardo Ruiz Esparza.
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“We are working with the Ministry of Communications and Transport regarding corruption cases with the previous administration with OHL, also with the Ministry of Tourism for issues of a possible diversion of resources with the Mexican Council for Tourism Promotion, evidently hand in hand with the Civil Service, where we have detected some kind of irregularity,” he recounted after participating in the cabinet meeting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at Palacio Nacional.
Ruiz Esparza joins a list of other former Peña Nieto government officials who are being investigated or who have been at least accused of corruption.
Rosario Robles, who was secretary of Social Development and owner of Sedatu, is in prison accused of improper exercise of public service in connection with the corruption case known as The Master Scam, where at least 11 units were involved.
Whoever was Coordinator of International Linking during the campaign of Peña Nieto and ultimately the holder of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Emilio Lozoya, is accused of receiving bribes from the companies Odebrecht and Altos Hornos of Mexico, for an amount that would exceed the $12.5 million, presumably in exchange for giving them contracts.
With information from Notimex
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Original source in Spanish