The Public Function Secretary (SFP) concluded five of the seven administrative proceedings that it initiated against the former governor of Chihuahua, Cesar Duarte Jaquezwho is detained for peculation y criminal associationwho had no responsibility, so the files were archived.
“He had seven administrative procedures, of which five have already been concluded and archived without having found responsibility administrative“said Juan Carlos Mendoza, lawyer for Duarte a Latin.
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Last Thursday, the lawyers Juan Carlos Mendoza and Jaime Terán Ruiz reported in a statement that the SFP annulled an administrative process that was initiated against DuarteJosé Lázaro Joaquín López Ramírez, former director of the State Trust for the Promotion of Productive Activities in the State of Chihuahua (FIDEAPEC), and Mireya García Medina.
Its about Administrative Procedure PAD 002/2019which the SFP initiated for alleged embezzlement for 6 million pesos.
According to the lawyers, the resolution was given after the past November 29tha control judge notified them that the criminal case for embezzlement against José Lázaro Joaquín López Ramírez was dismissed with effects of absolute judgmentbecause the former official died for Covid-19 while in prison in August.
On the other hand, the lawyer Juan Carlos Mendoza highlighted that there are 20 criminal cases open against the former governor of Chihuahuahowever, only for one has it been linked to process for the crimes of peculation y association delinquent.
Duarte’s defense explained that the remaining 19 criminal cases “are history” because, according to the legal certainty granted by the extradition treaty and the Constitutionthe former governor can only be tried in Mexico for the criminal case that was extradited.
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“The treaty of extradition provides that the person who is extradited may only be arrested, prosecuted and punished for the crime or crimes for which the extradition process was carried out, in this case it was for peculation y association delinquent“, he claimed.
On October 3, a federal judge denied an injunction to Cesar Duarte against the link to the process that was handed down on June 8 for said crimes.
Duarte was arrested in USA in july 2020 and extradited to Mexico, after fleeing from the authorities due to the order of apprehension issued against him in october of 2019.