translated from Spanish: Republic prosecutor’s office, seeks law to spy on companies

CDMX.- Anti-corruption prosecutor, Maria de la Luz Mijangos warned the Senate that it is almost impossible to prevent corruption, so she proposed reforms to five systems that would allow her to resort to espionage through the use of “electronic devices that do not invade privacy”, protected witnesses, insurance, account freezing and expedited application of the National Domain Extinction Act against companies involved in corruption “regardless of who has done so”.
In delivering the annual report to the Senate, the official detailed that there are 1,158 files that are the source of 950 research folders. The main investigated are Pemex, The Sedatu, the defunct Federal Police and the Judiciary, mostly for crimes of peculado and illicit use of powers and powers involving 350 individuals.
The official accepted that corruption is a phenomenon that is self-reinforcing by producing large illicit profits that generate incentives, so she proposed a package of legal reforms and internal adjustments in the Office of the Attorney General to prosecute this crime, warning that “facing it becomes more difficult and preventity almost impossible”. He therefore put in place “a great strategy” with internal adjustments in the FGR for the Public Prosecutor’s Office to engage in crimes known as “big corruption” or social impact and those committed by companies in public procurement, in social programs, in the health sector, corruption related to national security or corporate corruption.
Such a strategy would deal particularly with crimes for corruption committed by companies, “and thus end the impunity of them and their representatives”. A proposal for the definition of competences will be submitted to prosecutor Alejandro Gertz and proposed to the Senate to change the Penal Code to investigate crimes committed by local or federal public servants handling public resources; to any natural or legal person who has contractual relationships of a public nature and/or the management of federal resources
. As well as when it comes to capital tracking through the financial system; it is also “necessary to attribute to legal persons the crimes of peculado and unlawful perception, since large distractions of public resources are made through companies that carry out multiple operations with these resources”.
Original source: Millennium

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