The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) opened an investigative folder against the candidates for the governorship of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza (PRI) and Samuel García (Citizen Movement) for alleged criminal acts of an electoral nature.
The Prosecutor’s Office specialized in Electoral Crimes (FEDE) pointed to candidate Samuel García, his wife Mariana Rodríguez and her father, Jorge Gerardo Rodríguez Valdez, for the crime of “contributions in money or in kind, as well as funds or goods of illicit origin, used, illegally, for electoral purposes”.
The FGR explained that the facts are being investigated to determine the appropriate legal action. He added that the “complaints bind a number of natural and moral persons, as well as various operations, which have been noted in their amounts and dates, by the authority itself.”
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Samuel Garcia responded through his social networks that when the authorities require him he will come to declare that “I have nothing to hide, there is no irregularity in my campaign, let alone in my personal or professional life.”
He said that “all I’m guilty of is going upstairs in the polls” and that the allegations and attacks against him and his family are because “we’re going to win the governor’s bernatura of Nuevo León.”
On the day a competent authority requires me, I will come to clarify any issues because I have nothing to hide, there is no irregularity in my campaign, let alone in my personal or professional life. All I’m guilty of is going upstairs in the polls.
— Samuel Garcia (@samuel_garcias) May 11, 2021
Last April, Animal Politics published that federal authorities have been investigating Samuel Garcia since 2019 for alleged operations with resources of illicit origin and tax crimes.
The National Electoral Institute (INE) is notified of these indegatory and already checks whether there is any illegal election funding behind these resource movements.
Among the operations investigated are deposits of 26 million pesos from a company confirmed by the Tax Administration Service (SAT) as a ghost; another 170 million triangulated between firms linked to unusual operations and alleged money laundering; consumptions of more than 18 million pesos with credit cards, and various withdrawals for several million in cash.
The federal indegatory also includes García Sepúlveda’s wife, father-in-law and father. All three would be involved in a plot of million-dollar transfers signaled as suspicious by anti-lay areas of the financial system amounting to more than 180 million pesos.
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There are also transactions that were not reported to the Tax Administration Service (SAT) and that would give way to criminal complaints for possible tax evasion or fraud, among other illegals.
They’re going against PRI candidate by pink card
In the case of the priista, the FEDE noted violations of electoral law by buying and coercion of the vote through the delivery of a “pink card”, “which allows money to be obtained, once that candidate wins the election for governor of the state of Nuevo León”.
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