Investigative police from Mexico City and Hidalgo have arrested Roberto Zamorano, former Secretary of Finance of the PRI in the capital in 2014 and one of the alleged collaborators of Cuauhtémoc Gutiérrez de la Torre in his network of forced prostitution.
Zamorano is accused of the crimes of aggravated sexual trafficking and criminal association.
With his arrest, only Sandra Vaca Cortés, a former PRI deputy and Gutiérrez's right-hand man, is now a fugitive from justice.
The former leader of the party, known as the Prince of Garbage, and two other of his collaborators have already been linked to a judicial process that they will face from prison.
The pieces of the alleged sex trafficking plot that operated for years within the PRI in Mexico City continue to fall.
In March 2021, Adriana Rodríguez was arrested, accused of recruiting the women together with Claudia Priscila Martínez, who was also arrested in September.
Both are imprisoned in the Santa Martha Acatitla prison.
Gutiérrez, considered the leader of the network, was arrested on December 29 of last year and is being held in the Altiplano federal prison.
Today it was Zamorano's turn, whom the Mexico City Prosecutor's Office accuses of "obtaining resources for the prostitution network."
The plot, which hit the media for the first time in 2003, recruited young women for supposed jobs as secretaries or hostesses in the PRI.
They were offered a salary of 11,000 pesos a month, about 550 dollars, for nine-hour shifts, money that they had to negotiate with Zamorano.
When they arrived at the job interviews —conducted by Rodríguez and Martínez— they revealed the true nature of the job: to have sexual relations with the then president of the Cuauhtémoc Gutiérrez party.
“Two types of relationship are handled: oral and vaginal;
oral is unprotected, vaginal is protected.
It's 10 minutes.
You finish, you go to his bathroom, there you comb your hair and get ready.
He is already at his desk and you offer him a glass of water, ”the recruiter described, according to a recording obtained by an infiltrated journalist.
Among the details, women were asked to be "very pretty every day", because he was "very clean".
They also warned that the sexual encounters were not always in Gutiérrez's office, but also in his house, and depended on the PRI leader choosing them.
“There are several girls who are with him, plus those who are going to enter right now.
They are attending to him and he says to us: pass me to so-and-so.
And I'll pass you by ”, detailed Adriana Rodríguez.
After the publication of the investigation by Carmen Aristegui's team in 2014, the PRI decided to remove Gutiérrez de la Torre from office.
However, the official did not face legal consequences and was thinking of returning to politics when the capital's Prosecutor's Office issued his arrest warrant last year.
The attorney general of Mexico City, Ernestina Godoy, has assured that "the acts of investigation carried out by the past administration were deficient, ignored and far from the duty to seek justice."
But that after "perfecting the investigation", the Prosecutor's Office has obtained evidence against Gutiérrez de la Torre and his co-participants: "It is that evidence and only that evidence that supports the accusation."
The authorities continue to receive new complaints from victims.
Born in 1968, he is the son of PRI deputy Rafael Gutiérrez Moreno, who in the 1960s amassed a huge fortune by taking control of the capital's garbage collectors, earning him the nickname of King of Garbage.
Cuauhtémoc Gutiérrez joined the PRI at the age of 14, where he became one of the party's strongmen in the capital.
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