translated from Spanish: They quote Juan Collado to a new audience; FGR will charge you with new crimes

The legal status of lawyer Juan Collado, prosecuted for more than a year for organized crime and money laundering, could take a further turn. A federal judge quoted him on Wednesday, August 26 to a new hearing at the North Inclusorio at the request of prosecutors leading his case.
According to sources consulted by Political Animal, at that hearing, the FGR will charge former President Enrique Peña Nieto’s lawyer a separate offence for which he was originally prosecuted.
If the judge considers there to be sufficient evidence, it could lead to a second trial.
Collado has been imprisoned for more than a year preventively in the Northern Reclusorio of Mexico City after the FGR got a federal judge, Eduardo Velázquez Rea, to prosecute him for organized crime in the form of operations with resources of illicit origin. The case stems from a complaint about the allegedly illegal sale of land in Querétaro for 24 million pesos.
It was an inquiry that the FGR integrated in less than a month, and in which prosecutors presented as evidence seven statements from the same person, Sergio Bustamente, who himself served as a whistleblower, victim and witness. Collado’s defense criticized that fact, but the judge considered that they were sufficient evidence to open the process.
In the initial complaint for this case it was also established that the former presidents Enrique Peña Nieto and Carlos Salinas de Gortari had alleged links with the company Libertad Servicios Financieros, owned by Collado and from which multiple diversions would have been made. But this was not part of the initial indictment filed with the judge, although there were open lines of investigation.
Collado’s defense has promoted various legal remedies to try to undermine or reclassify the organized crime for which he was prosecuted. Among these appeals is an amparo trial that was yet to be resolved.
The reclassification of crime is a key element for the lawyer because organized crime is a crime that warrants automatic pre-trial detention. With other less serious illegals, Collado would seek to bring the trial to freedom or even seek an alternate way out through repair of the damage caused.
The new hearing to which Juan Collado has been cited, although by definition it is public, will be held behind closed doors at 10 a.m. due to health restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Original source in Spanish