The Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City (FGJCDMX) ignored the document released yesterday in which it allegedly determined that Minister Yasmín Esquivel did not plagiarize her undergraduate thesis.
“This Prosecutor’s Office has not pronounced at any time on the subject nor has it made public any conclusion in the sense that the complainant was a victim of plagiarism,” he wrote this morning on his social networks.
“Consequently, from the comprehensive analysis of the evidence obtained during the investigation, it is evident that the complainant Yasmín Esquivel Mossa did not copy, neither in parts, nor in its entirety, the thesis of Edgar Ulises Báez Gutiérrez; for his part, the latter acknowledges before a notary public having taken ‘several references and text’ of the project of Dr. Yasmín Esquivel, “indicates the investigation of the prosecution.
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With regard to the complaint filed by Minister Yasmin Esquivel with the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City states the following:
— Fiscalía CDMX (@FiscaliaCDMX) January 3, 2023
The document was circulating all day yesterday, when the vote was held to elect the new president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), without the agency denying them, until today.
Over the last few days, she denied that this had been the case and this Monday, before the vote, she even gave a message in which she accused that “powers that be” wanted to influence the relay in the highest court.
“Today, with full tranquility, and not only with sayings, but based on the resolution of an authority, it is ratified that the professional thesis that I presented to obtain my bachelor’s degree is of my authorship,” the minister insisted before the plenary of the Court.
This Tuesday, the prosecution said that it did not conclude that the minister of the Court has been a victim of plagiarism in her bachelor’s thesis.
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