The Mexican Attorney General's Office opened an investigation into former President Enrique Peña Nieto for federal electoral crimes, money laundering and illicit enrichment, the agency reported Tuesday.
"The first case includes various complaints in which the company OHL is involved, both in
crimes of an electoral nature, as well as patrimonial.
In this investigation, the advances will allow prosecutions in the coming months," the Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.
The then president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, in Buenos Aires for the 2018 G20 Leaders Summit at the Ministro Pistarini International Airport on November 29, 2018 in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Daniel Jayo / Getty Images
OHL is a Spanish company that has been denounced on multiple occasions for corruption crimes during Peña Nieto's mandate from 2012 to 2018.
According to the magazine Proceso, in 2020 the Mexican Prosecutor's Office announced that when the former president was governor of the state of Mexico, he gave this company a concession to build a viaduct despite not having the competence to do so.
Last month the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) announced the investigation against Peña Nieto for obtaining a little more than a million dollars in transfers that have been described as irregular from abroad.
According to Pablo Gómez, director of the FIU, the former president received the irregular deposits in an account in Spain between 2019 and 2021 through a relative.
“A scheme was detected where a former president of the Republic obtained economic benefits”