The case of the attempted arrest of the former governor Javier Corral Juryconfronted the prosecutors of the Mexico City and that of Chihuahua.
Luis Valenzuela Holguin, head of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Chihuahua (SMALL), said that the former governor, who he referred to as JCJ He is considered a fugitive from justice.
“Because the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office He has not provided in writing the reason why he did not decide to participate in the operation to arrest Javier Corral and by not providing them, they consider him a fugitive from justice,” he explained at a press conference.
He indicated that at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday the agency formally requested the collaboration of the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City (FGJCDMX), “as we had already done with previous investigation files.”
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor stated that what happened was an illegal act, since the execution of an arrest warrant based on an investigation file for aggravated embezzlement was prevented.
He also said that the former president had a strong protection team, including federal personnel.
He recalled that the accusation against Corral Jury It is due to an impact on the treasury of 98 million 600 thousand pesos.
THERE WAS NO RESCUE: LARA LÓPEZ
For his part, Ulises Lara López, head of the capital’s Attorney General’s Office, justified that Corral Jury He was not “rescued,” but rather due process was prioritized, since the procedures for collaboration with his Chihuahua counterpart for his capture were not exhausted and formalized, for the alleged crime of embezzlement, to the detriment of the state’s public treasury.
In a message, spread through the X account of the FGJCDMX, Lara López said that the Chihuahua authorities intended to arrest the former president based on an internal document from the Attorney General’s Office in that state.
However, he explained that the arrest warrant had to be supplemented with the support and endorsement of the Special Investigations staff of the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office, who were not present.
For this reason, he said, he personally went to the site to confirm that the collaboration agreements between the country’s entities, signed in 2012, will be respected, which establish respect for the sovereignty of each state to execute arrest warrants.
DEMAND TO MARU CAMPOS
After the events, Javier Corral filed a complaint against the governor of Chihuahua, Maru Campos Galván, on the same night of this Wednesday.
Through a post on his X account, Corral Jurado reported that he also went against Valenzuela Holguín for having ordered conduct possibly constituting the crimes of abuse of authority and attempted illegal deprivation of liberty.
He explained that the Chihuahua authorities sought to detain him, “cunningly and arbitrarily,” outside of the legal channels, since they did not have the authorization of the Collaboration Agreement signed between the country’s prosecutors.
In this regard, he indicated that the staff of the Prosecutor’s Office from Mexico City intervened to safeguard his physical integrity, freedom and rights.
However, he stressed that he has not committed any crime and would prove it “if he were allowed to defend himself in freedom as is his right” and if in Chihuahua the institutions of the justice system were not co-opted by the governor, who indicated “are under the control and blackmail of César Duarte Jáquez and Manlio Fabio Beltrones.”
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2024-08-20 01:14:33