translated from Spanish: Collado also operated diversions in Aguascalientes, NL and Sinaloa: Corral

Lawyer Juan Collado allegedly operated public resource diversions in the states of Aguascalientes, Nuevo León and Sinaloa, “through the same scheme he used in Chihuahua,” the entity’s governor, Javier Corral, said thursday.
In an interview with Carlos Loret on W Radio, he mentioned that the Chihuahua Prosecutor’s Office “found in its investigations a simulation method, in which it billed million dollars for legal services or advice”, of which there is no record.
“The procedure is similar to what was detected in Operation Safiro, where the millionaire diversions were made through triangulation with phantom companies, which also simulated services that were never performed,” Corral said, according to a statement from the Chihuahua government.
In Aguascalientes, he noted, “the case was prosecuted against some public servants, not the lawyer”, and in the rest of the entities he claimed to be unaware of the progress of the investigations.
Last September 1st, the Chihuahua government reported on the execution of an arrest warrant at the Northern Reclusorio (where he remains interned for other criminal proceedings in the federal order) against Collado, accusing him of being presumed responsible for the crime of a peculate for the sum of 13.7 million pesos.
According to Corral, Collado acted in contention with the former president of Mexico, Carlos Salinas, and former governor César Duarte, to extract those resources, which were the heritage of the Chihuahuas.
Next Sunday, as Corral said, Collado will be presented at a new hearing via videoconference, “since the lawyer remains imprisoned in the northern inmate of Mexico City, accused of other federal crimes.”
As a lawyer, Collado had clients as the former president Enrique Peña Nieto, from whom she brought her divorce with actress Angelica Rivera; he was also a legal representative of Raúl Salinas de Gortari, brother of former President Carlos Salinas, when he was charged with the murder of former PGR-sponsor Mario Ruiz Massieu, as well as money laundering.
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Original source in Spanish