A newly renovated 1,496-square-foot apartment with a 112-foot terrace and 13-foot ceilings, located in an affluent neighborhood of the Spanish capital.
This is the apartment that the former president of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto put up for sale last Friday, after the Mexican Attorney General's Office opened an investigation into the former president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for allegedly receiving millionaire payments of illicit origin, according to an investigation published this Thursday by the newspaper El País.
According to said media, the offer was published on a real estate portal hours after the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of Mexico reported that Peña Nieto received 26 million pesos (1.3 million dollars) between 2019 and 2022 through of an irregular transfer scheme, when he had already left power.
According to the FIU, Peña Nieto had the help of a relative to enter that money after leaving power.
He defended himself on the social network Twitter and said that he hopes to be able to demonstrate the legality of his estate before the Mexican authorities.
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According to the journalistic investigation, Peña Nieto (who governed between 2012 and 2018) requested
652,918 dollars for his property,
located in an elegant building with a classic appearance from the 1980s.
The house has a large living room with two rooms, an open kitchen and two bathrooms.
"It is an
impressive home,
ready to move into that has top quality furniture, appliances and kitchenware", can be read in the ad, which also details that the home has a large bedroom with an en-suite bathroom and a large dressing room
"The jewel of this apartment consists of the possibility of enjoying a large patio terrace conditioned as a great room to enjoy the outdoors that is accessed from the living room," adds the ad, which describes the neighborhood in which it is located, Almagro , as "one of the most elegant in Madrid, since in its tree-lined streets are some of the most classic stately buildings in the city."
Peña Nieto's property was acquired without a mortgage and was deeded on September 18, 2020, according to the aforementioned media, which indicated that the former president paid a little more than 504,072 dollars, to which he added renovation and decoration expenses.
Real estate experts assured this medium that the profit margin is low.
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Testimonies cited by the media assure that Peña Nieto used this house for just three weeks, since in reality he lives in a chalet built on a 26,910-square-foot plot that appears in the name of a construction company on the outskirts of Madrid.
Peña Nieto lives in Madrid after obtaining a
golden visa in 2020,
which allows those who buy real estate for at least 500,000 euros (10.5 million Mexican pesos) to be regularized, as reported in May by El País.
In addition, according to another investigation by El País, his lawyer, Juan Ramón Collado, bought an apartment in a luxury hotel in Madrid when he was being investigated for money laundering.
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According to the investigations of the FIU, the former PRI leader is linked to two companies affected by fiscal and financial irregularities.
And he is a shareholder, along with relatives, of one of these.
One of them was created when he was still in power.
And the other is linked to a multinational that received contracts for more than 500 million dollars from the federal government during its six-year term and moved funds between 2015 and 2021 in the form of transfers to Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Opposition parties have accused the Government of "persecution" and "media show" in the face of this investigation, and that of the current PRI leader, Alejandro Moreno, in addition to reports in the press of information that the FIU requested from banks about former presidents Ernesto Zedillo (1994-2000), Vicente Fox (2000-2006) and Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), according to the Efe news agency.