translated from Spanish: The charges and potential benefits of collaborating, the keys to the Lozoya case

Properties in Mexico and abroad, bank accounts with millions of dollars in European banks and tax havens, alleged recordings where bribes would have been recorded to legislators and officials, and a new complaint underway for possible money laundering.
These are the key elements within the criminal process that former director of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Emilio Lozoya Austin, will face in Mexico once it becomes available to Mexican judges after being transferred from Spain, where he was arrested last year.
Lozoya agreed to be extradited to our country and has promised to work with the Mexican authorities to demonstrate an alleged federal-level corruption network in the past six-year period. In return you could get benefits ranging from a short trial and a reduced sentence, or even early release.
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But for the above to happen, a procedure that the law states in which, in addition, the former Director of Pemex must collaborate not only by narrating illegal events in which he has participated, but by providing evidence to support him and goods to repair the damage caused.
Then, Political Animal it details the key points of this case, from how the trial will begin in Mexico and the charges against it, through the terms of collaboration, to the potential benefits it could achieve if cooperation is effective.
And if the former Pemex director stays in jail, he’ll have notable ex-staff who are also under prosecution from cell neighbors. At the end of this note it is detailed who they are.
Arrest warrants and new charges
On Emilio Lozoya Austin weigh two arrest warrants that give rise to the original extradition request. 
One is the one related to the alleged bribes of just over $9 million he would have received from construction company Odebrecht and for which he is charged with money laundering, criminal association and bribery. The second order is for an alleged bribe of $3.4 million that the former Director of Pemex received from the company Altos Hornos, and for which he is also charged with the crime of money laundering.
The details of how these payments were given and the triangulations to hide them are detailed in this note.
But those charges could be added new research. The Controls of the Ministry of Finance confirmed to this medium that the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) will file a new complaint with the FGR against the former director of Pemex. 
In February, the UIF owner, Santiago Nieto, had reported four complaints filed with the FGR against the former officer for his involvement in Odebrecht’s bribery network and for tax fraud. The new complaint would be the fifth against Lozoya.
The possibility that Lozoya may be assigned new charges arises after he himself resigned from the so-called “specialty principle”, which is a condition that exists in extraditions so that a person is only tried to the country to which he is sent for the crimes for which he was originally claimed.
Starting the process in CDMX
When Lozoya Austin arrives at Mexico City International Airport, a legist physician from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) will check his health status. If there is no inconvenience, one of the federal judges of Northern Reclusorio who turned the arrest warrants against him will be asked to schedule an initial hearing to receive the defendant.
Once the application is made Lozoya will be transferred to the aforementioned prison to appear at an initial hearing, in which the prosecutors will detail the allegations against him. The defense will then fix its stance. Finally, the judge will define whether there is sufficient evidence to formally hold the former Director of Pemex to trial both for the Odebrecht case as well as the High Oven case.
The hearing will end with the imposition of a precautionary measure against Lozoya, which may be pre-trial detention if prosecutors so ask and argue why it is necessary.
By law this hearing should be public, however, due to the health contingency will be held behind closed doors. It is even possible that the judge and the parties will be located in separate spaces and connected by videoconference, or distributed separately in the same room.
The Rabbit of the Federal Judiciary announced yesterday that it will unveil the ins and outs of it to a group of journalists through a Whatsapp channel, with the fithat what happened to the general public is transmitted.
Collaboration: what needs to be narrated, tested and delivered
For Lozoya to achieve any legal benefit, it is necessary that he collaborate with the FGR with information that shows the commission of crimes that are more serious than those charged to him. If he himself is involved in any of these facts, it is important that he points out the highest level of participants involved. For example, if it is a case of corruption it should show officials of higher rank than yours.
But such accusations and points must also be accompanied by verifiable elements or evidence (documentary, financial or otherwise) that help the FGR build a case against the others involved. 
In this context, sources with knowledge of the case pointed to Political Animal that Lozoya has referred that he has 18 hours of recordings that supposedly show the payment of “moches” (bribes) to opposition legislators in the six-yearonyness of Enrique Peña Nieto, in order for the approval of the energy reform. 
If such recordings exist, they must be delivered to the FGR for safekeeping, processing and analysis. Lozoya must also be willing to become a witness against other involved.
In addition to the above Lozoya must also be in a position to deliver goods that not only show the wrongdoing, but in turn help to repair the damage caused.
These assets include bank accounts opened by lenders in Europe and in tax havens such as the Virgin Islands, with which more than 15 trillion-dollar trillion-dollar triangulations would have been made to – presumably – conceal the bribe payment of Odebrecht and Altos Hornos.
The former Director of Pemex must also make available to prosecutors property that has been acquired through resources of illicit origin. Among them are, for example, a residence in the Lomas de Bezares division in Mexico City and another residence in Ixtapa Zihuatanejo, Guerrero. This added to other goods abroad.
Benefits: short trial or exoneration
If Emilio Lozoya provides sufficient information to prosecute senior officials for more serious crimes, he can achieve a benefit that the law calls as the “criteria of opportunity”, and that would allow him to even be exonerated and regain his freedom.
Alternatively, if what you provide is not enough but still helps the authorities, is to seek a short trial called “abbreviated procedure” in which you must agree to be guilty, but you will be imposed – with the endorsement of the FGR – a minimum penalty.
This note details, in depth, the conditions and procedures for logaring such benefits, and at what time the criminal proceedings could be applied to the former Pemex director.
Priists Prison
In the event that prosecutors request as a precautionary measure that Lozoya Austin be pre-emptively imprisoned while his process is going on, he will be held in one of the cells in the income area of the Northern Preventive Inmate.
This would make him the third character linked to the PRI to be held in that area of security of the capital prison.
The other two are the former governor of Veracruz, Javier Duarte de Ochoa, who serves a nine-year prison sentence for money laundering and criminal association; and Juan Collado, a lawyer for priists, who faces an ongoing criminal process for the crime of organized crime.
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