The PAN’s candidate for the Chihuahua government, Maru Campos, presented this Thursday to graphic experts who pointed out that the receipts with which the Public Prosecutor’s Office accuses the panista of receiving bribes from former governor César Duarte are false.
According to experts Sergio García Vidauri and Alberto Raúl Baudino, the signature that appears on checks related to former governor César Duarte’s so-called “secret payroll” is not that of the PAN candidate.
At a press conference, at which the candidate was also present, García Vidauri noted that by reviewing the 34 receipts for the receipt of the resources “these are different signatures than the receipts and the original signature of Maru Campos”.
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Panista Campos was linked to criminal proceedings for allegedly receiving money from former governor César Duarte when she was a local deputy between 2013 and 2016. Specific to him, he was charged with the crime of bribery.
The State Attorney General’s Office claims that the then legislator collected bribes in two ways: one, by simulating utility contracts in favour of her brother (for 1 million 067 thousand 200 pesos), and another, through monthly cash deliveries from the State Ministry of Finance for “support” (9.3 million pesos).
The expert added that the notary’s certification is also false, as the seal appears in all cases in the same place. “(…) technically that’s unpredictable, because if you go every month to certify something, you don’t put the seal in exactly the same place.”
Other abnormalities he found was that in the case of certification, he first put on the notary seal and then the signature, when it is the other way around, besides that the ink of the seal does not age over time.
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The Chihuahua Prosecutor’s Office reported that the presentation of these analyses does not affect the process against the panist candidate, as the Prosecutor’s Office made its own analyses and concluded that the Notary’s signatures are authentic and that the stamps used in the certifications are legitimate.
“The Judge ruled that these are authentic certifications, because the seal and signature of the Notary that validates them, were never undermined by the defense and even less by the supposed specialists they presented today,” he said in a statement.
He added: “The criminal case does not resing the result of the linkage with them, with or without them, as the evidence and evidence in the investigative folder is diverse, including the statement of eyewitnesses, accounting opinions, audits and bank statements.”
According to the authorities, Campos may present his graphoscopic analyses at the intermediate stage of the process, following the further investigation to be vented at the oral trial.
For his part, the governor of the state, Javier Corral Jurado, noted that the presentation of the experts was a media show that seeks to deny that it is his signature that appears on the receipts.
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“Maru Campos was not linked for receipts or signatures of anything, he was linked by the testimony of dozens of people, testimonies that they claimed before the judge when they gave him the money, as he received it, even how he signed and well, even grotesquely came the fact that in reciprocity corresponded with pays,” the governor added.
Corral Jurado also questioned the reputation of one of the experts, Sergio García, “one of the most questioned characters in the procurement of justice in our country was dismissed as an expert of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic, then PGR; has been in jail twice, the expert they brought in to try to disqualify the evidence presented by the Prosecutor’s Office.”
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