translated from Spanish: Extortion leaves 12,000 mdp to criminal groups in Mexico

Mexico.- According to the latest extortion crime report by the National Information Center (CNI) of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) showed that in 2018 alone this type of crime left about 12 billion pesos to Mexican criminal organizations. It is four 4 billion above that recorded during the period 2017 when it was estimated that criminal groups obtained 8 billion for such crimes.
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As reported by David Pérez Esparza, owner of the National Information Center (CNI) given its effectiveness, more and more organizations have chosen to carry out such crimes, above others such as theft on public roads and transport in 14 entities of the Mexican Republic being the most outstanding Tamaulipas, Veracruz and Jalisco as published by the universal.

During his participation as head of the National Police and Justice Model Measurement Commission (MNPJC) meeting, he detailed that the CNI has so far received nearly 150,000 calls of which half are related to acts of extortion and fraud. Faced with the situation, the headline mentioned that this practice should be recognized as a criminal phenomenon because it is very important, because as a result of the covid-19 pandemic, these crimes could increase, so further work is being done to identify the patterns, as well as the modus operandi of such organizations. As for the way to operate, Esparza mentioned that about 50% of the calls received indicated that the extortionist identified himself, as a relative, kidnapper, some banking institution even belonging to some criminal organization.

Original source in Spanish