Mexican authorities have raided the home of a close aide of former President Enr...
MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities have raided the home of a close aide of former President Enrique Pena Nieto and secured the arrest of one of the country’s best-known businessmen in a drive to get justice for scandals that tainted the last government.
The swoop for Lozoya, who ran Pemex from 2012 to 2016, and the arrest in Mallorca on Tuesday of steel-magnate Alonso Ancira, who the government accuses of paying Lozoya bribes, were the boldest steps yet in a new drive by current president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador after he took office on Dec. 1 pledging to root out corruption.
Gonzalo Monroy, an energy analyst often critical of Lopez Obrador’s policies, especially in the energy industry, said the move was “a step in the right direction,” but warned that success on clamping down on corruption would only come if the case against Lozoya was fair. In 2017, Lozoya denied having funneled cash to Pena Nieto’s election campaign after Brazilian newspaper O Globo alleged that Lozoya had taken $10 million in bribes in 2012 from a former executive of troubled construction firm Odebrecht.
Though he has failed to curb surging violence and the economy shrank in the first quarter, Lopez Obrador is expected to win easily the governorships up for election in the border state of Baja California and the central region of Puebla. “The pressure within his own party and the pressure within his cabinet had become enormous. This, I think, was a determining factor in the rush by the attorney’s general’s office to investigate,” Ortega said.
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