Mexican authorities denounce former President Enrique Peña Nieto to the Prosecutor for receiving millionaire payments from companies

The Mexican authorities have denounced former President Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), before the Attorney General's Office, accusing him of operations with millionaire resources of allegedly illicit origin.

The director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Pablo Gómez, said this Thursday at a press conference of the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (of the Morena party), that Peña Nieto

(1.3 million dollars). between 2019 and 2022 through international bank transfers.

“It is relevant because, since they are cash operations, the source is not known.

It was detected that the former president has ties to two companies, in which financial irregularities were identified," Gómez assured in the president's morning conference, according to the Reforma newspaper.

“These resources were transferred by a blood relative from an account in Mexico to Spain,” added Gómez, “said relative applied these operations with a brother of the former president, by sending him checks.”

At least 15 people and companies

would be involved in the allegedly irregular transfers to the former president (who governed between 2012 and 2018, before López Obrador), according to the complaint by the Financial Intelligence Unit, which depends organically on the Government's Treasury Secretariat.

The FGR has already opened an investigation folder, Gómez specified.

Peña Nieto, right, during the inauguration on December 1, 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico. Carlos Tischler / Getty Images

"We are not going to be persecuting anyone," López Obrador said, but, "at the same time, if the Prosecutor's Office proves that there are illegal acts, a judge must be consigned and a process opened."