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(CNN Spanish) - The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said Thursday that he has no information that there is an investigation against former President Enrique Peña Nieto as part of cases of possible corruption in the state oil company Pemex.
“What exists is the ongoing investigation against the former director of Pemex. There is no investigation - as far as I know - against former President Peña, ”said AMLO and added that“ we, as an Executive, have not filed any complaints. ”
The president's clarification comes a day after The Wall Street Journal reported that a senior judicial official - who did not identify - told him that Peña was investigated.
CNN is trying to contact the former head of state or his lawyer to get his answer to this information. On previous occasions, the ex-president has categorically denied that he participated in corruption cases within the state oil company.
CNN has not been able to independently confirm that Peña Nieto is under any investigation, but in an interview with Aristegui Noticias in August 2019, Santiago Nieto, head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) revealed that they were reviewing the finances of former President Peña Nieto.
According to Nieto, the case of the former director of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya, was being taken into account in that analysis of the ex-president's finances. Nieto said at the time that the report would be published "in a few months", but so far there has been no update in the case.
Lozoya was arrested in Spain on February 12, accused in Mexico of having accepted US $ 10 million in exchange for granting public works contracts to the Brazilian company Odebrecht. Two years earlier, when the accusations came to light in a journalistic investigation, Lozoya denied that anyone had bribed him.
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